12.10.25 Randy Baumann and the DVE Morning Show HR 4

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dv E Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio Station guaranteed Human.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I do think it was smart Alex More to pretend
his microphone was busted on that one. That was.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
The young rookie has learned a little from me.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Just tack on that mic.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Look at that guy on the sad line who's got
the batteries of the lacket, like, we're never gonna miss it.
And then you say after preak.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Your mic and you're like, yoid.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thing, is it working? What's going on with you? People
thought you kidding me?

Speaker 5 (00:38):
And that poor person on the sideline's gonna get fired
because he didn't change the nine bolt batteries after the
third quarter time off.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, you gotta do it. That's part of the game.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Boys.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Brandy Bellman and the.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Les Jeans there it's are coming live in studio right
now saying this hellais hellos salutations.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
We're live on the radio right now.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Just so you don't get you know, I don't want
you to get what's the reference I'm looking for that
guardeled I yess yeah exactly, Ga, Yeah, exactly, Hot Mike guaranteed,
Jean Gene, Welcome to the DVAST. These are the new
studios which aren't as quite as big as the old ones.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
But beautiful digs here, you know, listen, being in the
jam sand business.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I know, I'm three minutes later.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
I had to stop into the public restroom to see
what kind of soap dispensers, you know, what kind of
urinal screens were in there.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
And yeah, yeah, the place looks pretty good. Yeah, well
not bad.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Let me tell you something, though, A good urinal cake
can change your day, you know, like we needed urinal
cakes in this place for so long. I mean I
was going in there and I thought I was just
my nose was like in a sewer pipe every time,
you know. And and they finally invested in some more.
Do they have buck eighty or something like that. But
they get this new groovy like flavors and stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Now you know, you getative mango, yeah, cucumber melon.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Great. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
The old ones when they'd get a certain size though,
you know, and they're like halfway down the drain or not,
kind of like the smelling salts that the players are using,
that's right, the games. I think maybe we had to
package those and get them to them before you get
hit the salt real quick. Urine okay, you know, water
the eyes, but I'm ready to go.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Did you ever use a urinal not a you're okay
smelling salt when you were refereeing?

Speaker 6 (02:18):
Did you?

Speaker 5 (02:18):
With the size of my nose, rim would not have
been a good idea. The whole thing would have probably
gone up the left side of it. Like, dude, I
can't get it out, you know what I mean? Somebody
Tweezers please Jeanez Sators live in the studio with this.
Mike Pursuit will be joining us a little bit PFT
comment or from Pardon my Taste.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Calling in in a minute. I hope that'll be all
right for you.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
But we're pretty excited about Monday Night football with the
Steelers in first place right now, and this is a
big in and it's going to be cold, which is
good for the Steelers because the Dolphins are a terrible
cold weather team and something we never consider when it's
cold for the players, when they're cold, the refs are cold.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, if you're cold, yeah, what what is?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Where do you draw the line on staying work because
you don't have to move quite as swiftly as the players.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Which isn't a good thing when it's like twenty below, right,
you'd like to move a little bit, all right, Yeah,
and we don't get subs. And I don't know if
any of you really realize it. There's no bench that's
heated on the sideline that just has like stripes on it. Like, dude,
when you guys go to commercial, you guys can go
sit on the bench and we'll put one of those
heavy jackets. No, we're still out there, right. So as

(03:27):
I got a little more experienced in the NFL, I
would punch out rather quickly to TV much of the
demise of our network partners, you know, a little too fast.
But then I would be lined to the sideline, you know,
and look at some of the young bucks that we're
standing around one of those blow heaters and like shoot
the elbow at him and go fellas you know, I'm
in my fifties and now I'll get out of the way.
Gino needs to get at least for thirty seconds.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, we'll be fine in a couple of minutes. But yeah, handwarmers,
do you go? Handwarmers? Definitely?

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Definitely handwarmers, and actually learn the trick to put the
footwarmer on the top of the feet.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
On the top as opposed to the.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Bottom, which I didn't realize at first and had some
issues with my feet for running with them underneath. But
the thin skin on the top permeates too quicker made sense,
And then quite frankly, you know again, as I aged,
I get a little more dangerous. But I remember being
in Chicago one year with the Bears, in one of
those really cold Chicago days. I had a rookie with
me who was nervous as heck, and I said, listen,

(04:21):
here's how you do this, kid. You take the handwarmers,
you put them in your pocket, and then you take
that bag of roasted almonds there and you stick them
in your pocket. That way, in the middle of this madness,
you can pretend that we're in the movie theater and
you have roasted almonds and you're really enjoying the show.
So the handwarmer also keeps the peanuts warm, and the
cash dude like, yeah, it's mind over matter.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, not to mention a nice aromatic aspect to the situation, Yeah, yeah,
it's true.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
You know, a few defensive arm are like, you don't
do it for whatever reason, You're like making me feel
warm and fuzzy. Today. That's the roasted almos.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
For a second, I thought you were actually being serious,
like it conducts the heat and it actually is a
as a you know, a powerless warmer in your pockets.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
There, just a whole bunch of almonds. It makes sense.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Abby's got a quick news story for us here. By
the way, you met Tad Whistle, who's hanging out, and
of course you know Mikey will be in here in
a little bit. Mikey's calming down from the fight he
just had with Mark.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Madden on the air.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
We're going futile. Yeah, I was wonderful. I'm glad I
didn't have to beard a rough though. Right Abby, what's
going on over there?

Speaker 8 (05:25):
Is this hour brought to you by better call Cy Cloudy.

Speaker 9 (05:27):
With most of us seeing just rain today instead of snow,
it's a high of thirty eight. Genus is maybe something
you would have to officiate here because we have.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
To acknowledge that it happened.

Speaker 9 (05:37):
Some people do try to cheat the system and save
forty cents and lie about the number of items in
their bag at the self checkout.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
By the numbers here, the people who are most likely
to do this.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Are rich people. Really, Yes, a new report look rich
people cheat.

Speaker 9 (05:56):
No new report looked into stealing itself checkoutes, and twenty
seven percent of people admit to taking an item without
scanning it on purpose, and surprisingly, the ones most likely
to do that are not poor. Forty percent of people
with the household income of one hundred thousand dollars or
more admit that they have stolen something at least once.
It drops to twenty seven percent for households making fifty

(06:17):
thousand to ninety nine thousand, and just seventeen percent of
people making less than fifty thousands ahead that they have.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I told you about the time that I went through
the twelve items or less and they made me leave
because I had bananas and the guy counted every banana singularly.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, oh no, it's not fair.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's a weighted item. Yeah, he's like, you have there's
five ban ina?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Is there? That puts you at fourteen or whatever? You
get the whole bunch where they had like the rubber
band they.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Were were because they were like because I got a
four and a or like a two and a three
or something like that, because they were you know, pulled
apart at the display and he made me change lanes
and I did it just for the bit.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm like, I'm doing this so I can bitch about it.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
There was like people in line who didn't defend me,
and that's when I realized, nobody's coming to save you, Abby,
Nobody's coming to save you. Now you have to fight
for yourself in this world, but you'll never get all
of your bananas.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Counter you just go.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Ahead and eat to thirteen right there, right, hold on,
I'm gonna due. I'm gonna get to twelve. But a second,
we're gonna pay for it too. I mean, I'm gonna
put the peel food, put the sticker on the peel right,
I got twelve now.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, it's a way todight them. It should be one thing.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
It was this guy I think was he was new
and he didn't want to, you know, court any controversy
and just wanted me to move over to the the
other longer lined aisle.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Sometimes those people have to turn a blind eye.

Speaker 10 (07:35):
And I know what happens all the time at the
end of your transaction, and how many bags.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Did he use today?

Speaker 10 (07:41):
And the guys right there looking at everyone could pinch
a lot of people that would affect the number.

Speaker 9 (07:47):
Yeah, how far through your scanning were you when he
noticed the bananas?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Didn't start scanning it didn't even start scanning to begin, Yeah,
didn't didn't start scanning. And I'll tell you something I
did the other day because I don't like going in
and not geane when they don't give you the basket.
I don't want the basket because sometimes I don't need
a cart. I just want a few things, so I
can't carry all of them, right, and they and they
don't have the baskets provided, so I use my pockets
in my coat.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
O dangerous though, yeah yeah, and uh red flag yeah right,
Cameras are catching this guy, yeah, free watch him.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
The second item just wet the pocket and he's gonna
pull one out at the check out.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
But I saw him put to it. It's exactly what
happened to me too.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
And I had two items in the pocket and I
forgot to pull the other one out, and I'm in
my car.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I was like, do I go back in?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
I did not.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Look Now I have before, I've done it before where
I went back in. But last week I was like,
I'm not going back in. It's too cold, And so
I stole and now I'm in. I feel like I
owe them, but they also get me sometimes. I kind
of think because I'm the one doing the checkout, and
I think I screw it up every once in a while,
Like I don't know what kind of apple it is.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
I just put apples, and they're like, well, what.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
A second collection in the Salvation Army busket when you
leave next week, you'll make amends.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, right, like circle back twice.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
That's a way to do is for that extra apple
I had in my pocket last week.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
There you go make amends.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'll do it with it with the uh, Salvation Army
hit the bell? Yeah, do you know they on those
Salvation Army kettles because nobody has cash anymore.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
They ringing the bell.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
You can go over it and you can just use
your phone and give a digital donation.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
That's just good business. It's just handy. I think I.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
Noticed that with the Girl Scouts as well.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
I whenever the last like election or so, there was
a Girl Scout tape. Because they are so smart now
they're just like, we're just going to post up because
we know you're coming in, and like you're not going
to stop when you see us. But they all had
their mom's venmo oh yeah, ready to go, And I
kind of felt cheated a little bit because it also
didn't feel like they were hustling.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Now did did you get hit up by other referees
to buy girl Scout cookies from their daughters and stuff?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
No doubts. Still still getting it up, get on that chain.
You know. It's like, no, I know, he's a three
peanut butter all the way guy.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Every year, you know, so inevitably they circle around.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's so funny, I mean, because I just I think
it would be tougher when you're traveling to meet each other.
There's no like place where you Morning Ralph, Morning Sam
and hanging your hat. You know, you're kind of meeting
each other in different parts of the world all the time.
So that's good to know that those words gets out
the shakedown happens.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
Gean, are you going to be working for Christmas?

Speaker 5 (10:25):
I am, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am going to LA
I Actually my youngest child, Andrew, lives out in San Diego,
So although I won't be with the entire family, I'm
going to go out for Christmas around the twenty third
and fly home on the dreaded Red Eye on Christmas Day,
which is kind of one of those weird dynamics in
this business where it's like, Okay, are you really all

(10:46):
in with this? Like this is what the sacrifices are,
but you know, it's part of that business.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I have flown on Christmas, I have flown on Thanksgiving,
and there is a weird solidarity that you have with
everybody on that plane, like we're all in this together,
aren't we. People are nice to do each other, I
feel like, you know, because they know that this you
get the short straw here.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Yeah, we all are in some kind of business that
put us in this capsule today, right.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, we don't know what you do, but dude, you
can relate. Right.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
It was like working Thanksgiving, you know, and you get
down to the hotel buffet, which wasn't a buffet on Thanksgiving,
right because they weren't putting the buffet out at the
breakfast place, you know, at the Marriott or wherever in
a lot of those places.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
So yeah, empty hotels.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
During holidays create a different type of a kind of quiet,
little you know, talk with yourself depression, like yeah, you're
really doing the right thing here.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
But at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, what's that George Clooney movie where he's like always
flying up in the air.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Up in the air. Have you ever seen that movie?
You know, I never got to watch a lot of
stuff looking.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Every night.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, but it's all about that lifestyle, like the travel
lifestyle that never ends, and just constantly being in transit
and how you're living out of a suitcase literally all
the time. And then that becomes the norm. And then
all of a sudden, you're like, the home part is
the tough part. Yes, you start to feel more comfortable
with what used to be uncomfortable.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
I know when I was in the midst of it, right,
like the eighty basketball games of NFL schedule, and you'd
have those five day swings where you and you didn't
know what city, but then you'd have a two day
window where you were home, so you wanted to get home,
and then when you got home.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
I was like, dude, why'd I do this?

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Right, I'm only here for you know, a day and
a half, and no one's making the bed and I
can't go by again.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, Like, I don't know why I wanted to come
back here and see all you.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
I miss you and everything, But this was not the
thing to do right now, get me back out there
so I can live in that other world because it
was a.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Weird come home.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
But you're not there right checking in you know what
I mean, and you want everybody to understand, Hey, things
are hard for me. I need a little special dispensation
on just about everything right right.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
And all the pets would be sitting there like staring
at you when you walk there, Like, dude, you didn't
leave enough food. The dog would put the dish in
the middle of the driveway and sit there when you
were trying to pull up, Like yo, you were short
on the water and nothing for nothing a day and
a half.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
To short on the food too, Like the car's not
getting up the driveway until you fill the dish. I
had to eat cat food exactly, cat food. You know
what that does to a dog.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
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Speaker 1 (13:25):
In the world. Pardon my take? And what what was
your ranking this year? PFT? I saw it was you
guys and uh and Simmons right.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Uh we were we were second, but we finished first
in the non tailor swift division. I think they put
more stock in at the end of the year, the
tailors was definitely the FCS, but right, yeah, we were
second on Spotify, so shut up to everybody that listens,
we really appreciate it. It's kind of crazy to always
see that at the end of the year.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh dude, it's I mean, it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Your your success has been fun to watch through the years,
and as has Geens Sterritors and Gene is here live
in studio with it this morning. In case you didn't know,
PF T Yeah I heard.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
I was just told that he was in the studio.
Gene is good to meet you. Love to have you
on the show sometime. I actually have a question for you, Gene.
I'm sure that you guys have probably already talked about it,
but I did not hear your answer. I was I
was watching the Raven Steelers game and don't knock over
that lately. Have you guys discussed this guys, now, you

(14:24):
know what.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm glad you brought it up.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
We haven't talked about it at all, and now's a
good time to do that. I guess we Actually we
did discuss it quite a bit, but the general consensus
on that PF t and Gene correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Is that it was called correctly. But it's a terrible rule.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
It's just that people, I don't know what play you're
talking about. I'm trying to rewind back and remember what
the play was, but no, listen, I mean it's it
is that play where where what we all see one
hundred people in the bar are looking going, dude, it's
a catch, right, But then we have to live by
this defian rule, letter by letter of what becomes a

(15:02):
catch and when the process finishes and the catch actually
is finalized, and every once in a while through the
course of these years, those certain plays show up and
uh and the likely play to me was another one
of those perfect storms. So you know, we're we're always
going to dislike that piece of the rule, like the
third element of what is a catch, because it just
has too many layers of subjectivity to it right where

(15:25):
it just doesn't meet the eye tests sometimes. But we've
got to find somewhere to draw the line and say
this is a yes and this.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Is a no. Yeah. It almost becomes philosophical at some
point where you're like, is continuing to extend the ball
because that does that count as an act in and
of itself a separate act if you're making the effort
to continue to keep the ball away.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
I think it's a great question, right, because he initially
possessed that football with arms fully extended, so he didn't
have any further out that he could reach without dislocating
his shoulder.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Right, And he's not going to pull the ball back
in because no football there.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, listen, I don't know his arm went
an extra seven inches.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
I'm giving it to it, you know. Can we get
someone out here and put it back in? But yeah?

Speaker 5 (16:08):
No, And and I think that's where again what you
just said, pft, Really I think is that element, right, So,
because he possesses it with arms fully extended and can't
make really a football move, now it becomes a time
thing like Okay, how long did he have the ball
that way? And then we come into that framing thing
where it seems like a light year on one set,

(16:28):
and then you run it in real time and go, dude,
that's not that long. But then if I slow it down,
it's like, oh man, he had the ball for six seconds.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
So yeah, there's a play. In New Orleans, a couple
of years ago where it was the Bears and the Saints,
and I remember the tight end made a touchdown catch
and got his knee dislocated and held on to the football.
It was it was ruled I think, not a catch,
not a touchdown. He had to end up like in
one of the hospitals thing overnight. That should have counted
as a football act. Sure, if you're able to make

(16:57):
the catch and then your knee pops out of place
and you have possession of the football, to me that
that that is uh, just give it, Just give.

Speaker 11 (17:05):
It like that.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
You only need one foot in with a grievous injury.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Right right, surviving the ground, easy.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Ground, But did you survive your fur cracking and half
like the wishbone and the darky.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
I think we should actually have one hundred drunk guys
in a bar that are on standby at all time,
so if there's a questionable catch, you just go to
them like they're their replay assists, and you just put
a buzzer in front of them and they can say
yes or no, is that a catch? And whatever. The
majority of those hundred drunk guys that we we breathalyze everybody,
they're all above a point away, and of them say, yes,

(17:50):
it's a catch. We go with that.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
I like it. Why not?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
I have to ask you, are you really in support
of James Madison? Are you really eating duck every day
until the James Madison Oregon game.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
I love duck. Duck is my favorite meat in the
entire world. So yeah, it's not really. I'm not acting
like this is some big sacrifice. It's a it's a
labor of love. I started yesterday. I ate duck gumbo,
which was delicious, and I was cruising through grub Hub
and Seamless and all the apps trying to see how
many different stuff me searching searching duck. I just typed

(18:26):
in duck and my auto correct is like, are you
sure you.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Raised different app? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, and and all I'm realizing that I'm just gonna
probably have to load up on peaking duck. I'm gonna
probably have to do that. Yeah, maybe eight or nine
times over the next twelve days, which is fine. It's
you know, duck taco is pretty much it's it's delicious.
I'm gonna be eating duck. I know that there's a
lot of people out there that.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Are disappointing every meal right, just once a.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Day, just once today. I'm not doing it every single meal.
But listen, I've had kidney stone problems in the past.
I can I can see where this might end up
if I eat it every single day for the next
twelve days. But I know that people are upset that
Tulane and JAMU are in the college football Playoff because
the group of five schools, they're not two of the
twelve best teams in the country. And I get that,

(19:14):
but respectfully, I don't care and I'm not gonna apologize
for it because, like my school, being in the twelve
team playoff is a day that I thought would never
happen as long as I lived, So I'm going to
enjoy it. We're probably going to get our teeth kicked
in by the Ducks. They're a big, physical team, but
Jamie is also not bad. I think we've reached the
point that it's in the discussion where now people are

(19:35):
acting like Tulane and JMU, or you know, Division two
schools that don't be on the same like JAMIU has
beaten a lot of the power for schools over the
past few years. Tulane beat two of them this year,
Tulane beat Duke, and JAMU would would have been favored
over Duke on a neutral field if they if they
play at the end of the season. So it's not

(19:56):
like we're terrible teams. It's not going to be you know,
the we're football you've ever seen. We're probably we're not
going to be as big as as Oregon, but I
don't think it's going to be a mismatch like Liberty
Oregon in that Bowl game a couple of years ago,
like sixteen in that thing. It'll be somewhat competitive. I
hope that we can keep it within the points spread,
which I believe now is twenty and a half points.

(20:19):
Jamie's got some players that that you'll see starring next
year at some big schools. We've got I guys, yes, yeah,
well like we do have. You'll know a lot of
our roster based on some really good schools next year,
like Indiana for example. Right now, right Indiana has a
lot of former JMU players that are kind of fueling

(20:39):
this drive. So, yeah, we're not gonna win the championship.
We're probably not gonna beat Oregon, and I'm not gonna
apologize to anybody for being in the playoffs, because this
is simply an incredible thing that happens to me.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
All Right, Philip Rivers is forty four years old. He
just got he got signed by the Colts. He is
going to play quarterback for the Colts. At forty four.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
That makes him the oldest quarterback ever in the end,
and I fell to play right. Well, No, George Blanda
was forty eight. Yeah, I think you're right, But I
think he was back. I think he was a backup quarterback.
I don't know if he started, he was still kicking.
I think at an older age. Tell me what you
think it's gonna look like with Philip Rivers quarterbacking the Colts.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
I think it's gonna it's gonna look awesome for like
the first snap. And I think that once the Seattle
defense starts to pin their ears back, it could get
very sad, very fast. Philip Rivers was never the most
mobile guy, shall we say. I think we just got
a number one most sackable quarterback in the NFL and

(21:38):
Philip Rivers. I hope it doesn't get ugly. I hope.
I hope he's able to avoid pressure to a certain extent,
or at least be able to protect himself from the
pocket because it wasn't great at the end of his career,
Like he last played what was that twenty twenty one
by Philip Rivers last so yeah, so it wasn't great
when he was playing at the end. I know that

(21:59):
he's been in this. He's been coaching this offense at
his high school that he goes to.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's crazy to me that he's using an NFL offense
for high school kids, and that makes me pissed that
the Steelers aren't more on the same page offensively.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
If high school kids can figure this stuff out.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, so he him and Shane Stike and they've
apparently been talking every week during the season, which makes
me think that Dyken always have this in the back
of his head, Like what if I called Philip Rivers, Like,
why are you talking to Philip Rivers every single week? Yeah,
he's got somebody lined up just in case the relationship
falls through, you know, he's got he's got somebody else

(22:36):
that he can hit up for a date if he
needs to. But it's uh, I don't know. I I
am very excited to watch it. I can't wait to
see what it looks like. I don't think it's gonna
be great. But it is the exact same situation that
that they did with Jeff's Saturday just a few years ago.
It's the same thing. They're doing it again, except with

(22:57):
a quarterback. I hope he wins one. I hope it's
liked this Saturday experiment. Maybe he comes out and they
shock us and it's a high scoring game in his
first game out there, and then maybe afterwards it kind
of trails off. But if I was a free agent
quarterback and I thought that Philip Rivers was getting a
call before me at that point, I think I'd probably

(23:18):
just hang it up. Like we might see a lot
of players just retire now, like your Taylor Heineke's, You're
Bend de Uchi's those kind of guys like this might
be the final message that it's not going to happen.
It's so forty four year old Philip Rivers just get
the call.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I mean, it's not without president this year. You know,
there's been lots of people coming out of retirement and
trying to play. But when it happened for the Lions,
when Ragnow came back, they were like, uh, yeah, it
turns out you don't have a hamstring on your left leg.
Like he was so far away from being able to
be NFL ready.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I can't believe it even made the news that he
was going to resign.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yeah, well, that was one where we thought that maybe
when he decided to come back, he just hadn't really
worked out that much in the last year. And he
went out there and ran a wind sprint and that
just tore his hamstring off. And then he was like, oh, crap,
I've already made the announcement that I'm coming back. I
guess I'll have to get Yeah, at least I'll go
in and get a free medical checkup out of this.

(24:14):
I'll get a free physical, So that's good. Philip Rivers Again,
I don't think he was ever really known for his
stunning feats of athleticism outside of maybe, you know, a
few things he did in college and early on in
his NFL career. So he's just gonna kind of be
asked to stand there like a statue in the pocket
and see if that arm still works, and if it does,
it could be exciting. I was optimistic about the Colts,

(24:35):
I really was. When Daniel Jones was playing for football.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
It was fun, but at this.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Point, I don't see I don't see it working out.
I'd love to be wrong. By the way, this is
one thing I would absolutely love to be wrong about
is Philip Rivers playing playoff football. That would be incredible
in the year twenty I guess it would be twenty
twenty six we get Philip Rivers out on the field.
How lucky would we be to have that happen with us?
But I do think that Taylor Heineke should get call

(25:01):
is He's not bad. He's a gunslinger, he takes a
lot of.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Chances he's out there. You're a bit biased.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
I am a bit bias. He was the only quarterback
to cover against Tom Brady on that playoff run. People
forget where tom Brady won the Super Bowl, But I
mean I've seen him play enough where I think he's
he's a better option than Philip Rivers. So I don't know.
That's That's my two cents on the subject. But again
I am I'm very much rooting for Philip Rivers. I
would love to work.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Out PFT before I let you go. Anything you want
to ask Jane before we we end the segment, No.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Gene, I just want to say I'm a big fan
of your work. I recently became aware of a man
named Mark Butterworth who is the NFL head of replay.
How how has this guy been kept secret from us
for so long? And is he does he actually exist?
Because my theory was the name Butterworth is so friendly sounding,
and it's possible to be to bet.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
With a guy like that every time you have your pancakes,
I know you right For some reason, like extra by,
it does feel like Freudian, like they're trying to get
something past little.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Nobody be mad at this guy. He's delicious, talented guy.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Really wasn't an official per se on the field a lot,
but spend a lot of time in the in the
replay space, which is now this new job description, right
where guys start as replay assistance and work their way
through this channel now so and yes and really really,
you know, as far as the NFL is concerned, the
fact that you don't know his name very well in
the officiating world is usually that that's really kind of

(26:31):
part for the course, right, They do kind of keep
them that way. But he's become a household name here,
you know, as we continue to roll through seasons, which
we all found out will happen.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah. PFT brought to you by.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
I was I was gonna say, are we considering a move?
Have you heard anything about the NFL doing like what
the ACC does with their replay where and you know
the English Premier League where you can hear every single
thing that's happening and watch the process.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh like total transparency.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
Yeah, think that we be yea, yeah, I don't think
you're going to see that the NFL. I mean, I
love all river on and I like what they're doing,
but there's something about it. And I know ESPN really
blows it up every time they do it, like this
is the greatest thing. And then sometimes you see that
look and it's like, dude, there's like a twenty two
year old kid with an Xbox controller standing in front
of the screen, you know, walking through this segment. Here,

(27:20):
is that who's making this decision or something? Nothing against them,
you know what I mean? But I think I think
sometimes the curtain is a good dark chest. This sausage yeah,
he's a.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:32):
Nobody wants to give their recipes. Yeah, you know, it's
always that one element. I need to see how it's made.
PFT we got to put a jump a Thanks buddy.
We'll see you all right all season long. As for
a Yingling traditional Logger, oldest brewery in America.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
And before it was all Penn West and now it
feels like it's sounds like a prison.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, it does a little bit.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Jean scaretor live in studio with us then this morning
down Yeah, uh, thanks for coming by and hanging out
this morning.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Man, this has been awesome.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I love it greatly, appreciate it. And we've been kinda
we have like the Steelers bends. I don't know what
they are, not the tim Bens like we're like, they're good,
they're bad, they're good.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
They beat their like I don't. The offense is terrible.
The next week, Aaron Rodgers looks like he's thirty years old. Again.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's driving me crazy because I don't know what to expect. Ever,
you never know what Steelers team you're going to get.
Are they gonna run for three hundred on us? Or
are we going to shut down the best rushing team
in the league. Well, could be a little culu may
could a freezing Monday night game. Let's head helward us here.
The Dolphins are typically pretty bad under a certain temperature.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Right, Yeah, two had never won when it's under forty
six degrees prior to beating the Jets.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Jets, Jets, Jets last Sunday in and that doesn't count.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
I gotta say this again, one of the most non
competitive NFL games I've seen recently. It's just three drives,
three touchdowns in the first quarter to start to get
The Jets just were not there, and then they were
down to is it Brady Cooked the quarterback guy?

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I think Brady Cook or Bradley Cook. They were non created.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Can't get a read on Miami watching that game, but
the three before it were really good.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Geene, what was like refereeing for Jets fans? Like the
Fireman Eds of the world. So I would imagine of
all the teams, the fan bases, I would imagine are
the worst or potentially scariest.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Jets and Raiders.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
Raiders back in the old Oakland Stadium, I was a
rookie downfield official called pass interference on the Broncos in
the end zone fifty five yard file put.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
It to the one.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
The Raiders punched it on the next play, and I'm
under the goal post next to the back judge for
the extra point, and you know they know your name,
they know you're a rookie, right, so you.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Start hearing all this.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
My referee punched out for time out, and I thought, oh,
I'll look over at the black hole. Maybe I'll get
a little love. I just called it fifty five yard file. Right,
they're giving me the finger, And that was on for you.
Maybe that's why we pulled the index card off fifteen
years later. I'm not giving anything away, you know what

(30:15):
I'm saying, Like, okay.

Speaker 10 (30:18):
At the room three eighty, how they know exactly the.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
Jets are hard. It's empty gyms. It's when you deal
with an empty stadium you hear more.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, you hear way more. It's not just the breath
of the hatred.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
It's like specific hatred, you know, like really, I really
heard him say that.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
Yeah, and he knew all three or four sisters names,
like yeah, well that you know you bring up empty gyms.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
It just occurs to me, you know, as much basketball
refereeing as you've done, that basketball must be worse in
terms of heckling than football because of proximity.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, you get you feel it all hoop
the hoops with that intensity and that proximity was like
it was palpable and beautiful.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, yee to embrace that part of his business
or if you can't, you mean, you're just not You're
gonna just turn into mush right on the court, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
So you kind of got to engage with it. And
uh and.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Empathy was the word I always used, right, He always
looked at those people.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I remember.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
You know, you get so good at it that you
knew exactly you didn't have to see them. You knew
they were in the fourth row and the third seat
from the owl because you just had been in the
arena so much. And then you knew the dude who
was going to hackle you, and you get him halfway
between sentences during your time out, and then you'd spin
on him and catch him before he could stop, you know,
and then you want to look at him, but you'd
look at his wife for significant next to him while

(31:44):
he was like frozen in time, and yeah, you give
her the look like you're with him, and.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Then the other ten people around him, like, dude, he
got give her a wink or something. Times.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yeah, I was at Michigan one night with two of
my two boys had a friend, doctor of Olio, who
owns a practice up here in Washington.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Dusty was at Michigan.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
So the boys drove up and they're in the student section,
and at Michigan the student sections right behind the visitors bench, naturally, right,
So I make a call against Michigan. I'm trying to
go to the table and I look over and all
these kids are hackling, and.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Like two of them were my kids. I'm like, you
enjoyed yourself. Yeah, it's a long walk for ann Arbor
A long time.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
Keep having some fun though. Yeah, the gods pull the crap,
I know. Yeah, yeah, he looks like you too. I
know it's an ugly god.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Oh man, no consideration from the kids.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Well.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Coach Tomlin, for his part, said he had no problem
with the refereeing last week and he wouldn't call the
league and.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Calls.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'm glad she's here for this because you know, Mike
Tomlin asked again about the calls in Baltimore, which are
We're in agreement right, Two of them were correct, one
of them was incorrect.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's how you look. I thought
the Rogers play was the hardest of the three. I mean,
that's just me openly like dissecting the play. The irony
for me, though, is I was in the middle of
a simultaneous catch with Jacksonville and India at the same
exact time in a different game, So you know that
I'm finishing that really hard play.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Did they get that one right? I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
You know, really they gave it to the defense, and
at any rate, so you're you're clearing Jacksonville right as
soon as you hear clear in the studio. It's like, Geane,
we got to play in Pittsburgh and those screens changed,
and the next thing I see is this ball like
pinned on Rogers's head, you know, and trying to break
that down within eight seconds was It was a pretty
uncomfortable moment.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
But I thought that was the harder of the three,
quite honestly.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
John Harville had a lot of problems with it, obviously,
But Mike Tomlins said yesterday he's got enough to worry about.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
He just lets the calls be the calls. You know,
It's always been debatable. It seems like I've just learned
to kind of move on, to be quite honest with you,
I moved on from Jesse James, for example, I don't
even know what year that was.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Does it sound like he had.

Speaker 11 (34:06):
The controversial calls and big games. I think I always
focus my energy on making enough plays to minimize that
in terms of determining the outcome of the game. That's
why you won't hear me calling New York post game
for explanations and things of that nature. You guys asked
me that maybe earlier in the year regarding something, It's

(34:26):
not going to change the outcome. I just work to
keep moving and I just like to put together a
comprehensive enough plan and make enough plays where the game's
outcome that inge on a on one play or a
couple of plays.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
He's not you know when he says he's you know,
I learned to move on and then he cites a
play that happened a decade ago. You know, it's not
exactly go on from Jesse James.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
When they screwed up against the Legos and the rule
of the whole season, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Now they have been in contact with the leg I
don't know if it's a technicality where the league reached
out to them.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Does that go on or do you have to ask
a lot.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
I think there might be certain levels where the league
would reach out. I don't think that's a normal practice,
you know. I think the coaches all have the opportunity
or someone within the staff to send plays of concern
in each week.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
We called them coaches questions.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Right, and then they that's part of one of the
days of the week for the officiating department, you know, yeah, Thursday.
I remember Bill Pollion back in the days with Indy,
you know, hit like send thirty seven plays in and
I was like, wait, we got to put a maximum
on this thing, you know what I mean. There's something
to that effect. But yeah, and you have to have
that in some ways. If teams want to reach out,

(35:35):
there's hard plays. There's fifty to fifty plays. Tell us
why it isn't this so I can coach it differently,
possibly fair enough. So you want to have it be
a learning piece as well.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Yeah, let me do you a quick break.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
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Speaker 1 (36:15):
When you were in the mood brook you got Indiana
hangover everything all right in there, jeez, Louise Jacob all right,

(36:40):
mister president.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
Tried to make the spot shorter and then forgot that
I did that, and then realize how early.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
We came back excuses by the way I did.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
I liked your signette shirt that you wore the Big
Ten Championship.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
It was the same shirt I've had since the beginning
of last season.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Which is a Arborough logo with signetti underneath it. Right, Yeah,
it's a classic.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Gee, what do you make of college football in the
controversy right now that's going on leave a Notre Dame
out of things and then Notre Dame's reaction. I grew up,
you know, loving the bowl season and the you know,
the BCS playoffs and everything have definitely given it a hit,
But I don't want it to go away altogether. And
that's why I don't like big teams skipping out on balls.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Yeah, no, I get it. Listen in Notre Dame. Look,
when I was a kid, you know, they used to
put like the president on a plate, right, you know,
and you put it on your wall in Grandma's house.
So we always thought like the Yankees Notre Dame, uh Jesus,
they were like all the same day.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
They were all the same plates were on the wall.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
It was like, did Jesus play for the Yankees and
Notre Dame?

Speaker 1 (37:57):
You know, because that's how sacred Notre Dame home run
were brought up, you know what I mean. So you
got a lot of tools, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
And then they were starting to build a stadium and
when they were renovating, it was like they were lifting
the end zone a little bit too much where touchdown
Jesus wasn't going to be seen. It was like, ohh
stop construction, called the engineers and lower it down a little.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
But you know, there's a beautiful mystique about it. I
get it, you know.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
But even going back to the PFT talk, Listen, this
thing has to happen.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Where a jmu wins.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
Yeah, solely March madness that we love the hoop thing for,
like we've got boys. He did it a little bit
before the playoffs, right that one year, and it became
something all we need is JMU to win like two games,
and now kids are gonna want to go to JMU,
And now the CIP Conference might end up with a
couple of players that don't want to leave after they
become decent players at a mid major, you know what

(38:48):
I mean. And maybe sister Jane comes back and you know,
in the football space or something like that. But I
like that idea. I think football might be a more
difficult sport to have that happened.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Though, Well, I think that that that is the inherent
problem with it, is just the actual personnel.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yes, overall, I got another inherent problem with it. I'm
all for the playoff, but Indiana next plays I think
on January twond a long.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Time forever away.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
First first, yeah, like, well kind of who takes a
month off before you go to the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah? And is that good or bad? I mean really terrible.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
I get it like players are healing, it's been a
long season, but dude, like four weeks without live action
still there's some rust there.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
I get the bulls used to be around the holidays
and everything in New Year's Day, but they were just bulls,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
They were kind of a different ended.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
If this is going to be the playoff of the season,
you got to roll into it after the season. Plus
by the time we get to the new year, I've
moved on to college hoops. In the NFL playoffs, I
don't really care what happens to.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
And it's hard to gamble when you don't know how
teams handle three weeks off.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Get to the priority. I don't know how they handled
this month off. No, I just think they should play it.
I agree with him, now, yeah, I agree with.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Let's cut to the chase. We've already we've cut the
legs off the balls. Nobody cares that.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Yeah, we're not gonna watch them anyway, no matter when
they play. Nobody's going to playoffs first, and then we'll
do the balls later.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Nobody plays in a non playoff bawl anymore because you
gotta get ready for the draft or whatever.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Just with well, I think what I'm hoping is, you know,
you saw the news yesterday with like private equity buying
into Utah and there's like a five hundred million dollar
deal now where they're going to get to control basically
all aspects of the program and revenue and things like that.
That that was the step that a lot of people
were afraid of that was happening that that now it's
just there's no veneer at all. It's like a gold rush.

(40:47):
And what I'm hoping is that, like they squeeze college
football so hard that they kill it and it has
to come back in its original form in some way
shape because I don't.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Recognize it like I used to.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
I hate the fact that these players jump around year
to year so easily. It's the same thing with hoops too,
where it's like I hated Duke because I watched those
guys for three years and now I really hate them,
and you know, three of them are seniors, and I
be I hate these guys, like you're not building up
the same relationship.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
To really dislike yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, Now
I do think this on the other end, just to
play Devil's advocate, at least on the hoop side, you know,
a lot there's not a lot of openings in the NBA, right, Like,
I mean, you leave college basketball, you're going to Europe.
A couple guys make it to the show, and then
you're in the G League playing in some mid you
know town. You don't know Uh. With the money now,

(41:40):
the players may stay. So I think are our level
of athleticism or personnel in college basketball may increase now
because I am going to stay for four years because
I'm really not going to make the NBA. Sure, that's
a good point like that. So, but I do agree
with you about the hop in year to year. It's like, look, dude,
if we're going to do this, you get one one
hop yeah, and then you're done. We're only giving you

(42:01):
one hok. Yeah, So we got to put some boundaries here.
As what you said, the Wild West is happening now.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
It really is, and I know that that's killing the
bowl system as we know it.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
I just I love that part of college football.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
To me, that is part and parcel of it is
the dumb bowl games.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Like, hey, there's a dumb ball game today. That's a
great feel, Like we get football team and a dumb
mayo on a guy. Yeah. I have switched to Duke's
because of that, to Duke's Mayo. Yeah, the Duke's.

Speaker 10 (42:30):
We're a Duke's household now because every year some guy
who really doesn't want to be covered in mayo in
the freezing cold gets covered in may.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Well, Okay, along those lines, let's ask Gene the referee here,
because I would think you have a big problem with
the Doctor Pepper challenge because ten years ago when that
girl figured out that she could do the chess pass, yeah,
and she won, and everybody has been doing it since then.
Isn't that completely counter to the spirit of the game.

(42:59):
There is no chest passing football if we're not really,
I mean, if we're doing a contest, there, shouldn't it
always have to be in over the shoulder.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
You've got to get the thing above the shoulder right
and flick the wrists here. No, I mean we're just
pitching options forward, yeah, you know what I mean? Or
put the line of scrimmage there and that's the legal
forward pass. Your foot's over the line, yeah something Yeah,
back them up so they have to yeah, and then really,
I mean, let's they don't pick the greatest referees to
stand between that. And I was wondering if, dude, you

(43:27):
did you dress up today to be the rough for
the doctor.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
You know, you're all like that.

Speaker 5 (43:31):
Every one of you guys looked like that.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
That's just some vice president of marketing for Doctor Pepper
that they gave a referee shirt to.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
It's a lot of steak. There's a lot of one
hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
There's a lot of cash. That girl from pitt got
beat last week. The guy she was playing had a
different It was the one armed push. She was doing
the two armed push. Yes, she was ahead of him
for a little bit. Yeah, I know it's a drag,
but that was a hell of a big ten championship
game with Jacob's Indiana Hoosiers coming out victorious.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
So what do you think happens there? Young Jacob? Tell
me the path to success for you? Now?

Speaker 6 (44:09):
Well, the time off is scary because I think it's
a great point. You don't you've never seen in any
sport a team get that much time off, right, And
it's not like baseball where teams who have the buy
they're used to playing six seven games a week and
you don't want to buy because you get out of rhythm.
Whereas football, it's much needed. One of our best defensive

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players had a really bad injury in this game. Our
coach said he didn't think anyone had that had an
injury would affect the game because it's in three weeks
from now.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
So I guess that's an asset.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
Yeah, everyone gets right, it's still the other and it's
two guys that have injuries the other. However, I mean,
how many guys Mike are on a college football roster. Yeah,
like ninety. The other eighty eight guys are getting a
little too rested. It's the younger.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
There's enough that they guys have the same number. Two
guys have the same number occasionally, right, which they look
great at.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
The number. We got to get away with a double.
The numble number got to go.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
I'm sorry, little billies are not going to come unless
he's the number.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
He wasn't high school the billy. You got to make
a new number.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
I mean, listen, even from this network side, it's like, dude,
there's a play, there's number two.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
I'm looking down.

Speaker 5 (45:23):
It's like there's eight number twos here, Like which guy
I don't want to say the wrong name.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Who wasn't they They did a fake punt, Yes, they
they brought the same number as the punter, but it
wasn't the punter exactly, and he came out. He was
like a backup, a fifth string quarterback or something like that.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
You can't have two the same numbers on the field. No,
you can't do that. You're right, they have to change
it if it wasn't at the same time.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
No, I've seen that called where there was like two
number threes on the field. I can't do that. That's
a penalty at the same time. Yeah, right, they're in
the game at the same time.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Oh, yeah, you can't do that. You got to put
the put another number on or something, or yeah, do
the nipple rover things.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
What what you know seventy four is eligible?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Oh the next I don't know what he was doing. Oh, Mike,
I'm glad you never had a mic on the field.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
It would have been classic TV seventy fours now never
call it.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, I didn't make that up. All right. So what's
your schedule this weekend? You got a whole bunch of
games Army Navy Saturday. Oh you're not going, Mike, I
don't know yet. Yeah, Mike always goes to that. We're going.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
Yeah, we're going make a few phone calls. We'll get
to get we get cousin Mike. He got to get there. Yeah,
we got to find a way.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
To get him there.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Yeah, Army maybe then I think we got a five
or six hopper on on Sunday, So yeah, it'll be
exciting again. It's that time of year though, man, I
mean it is, Oh yeah, crunch time cranks up right now.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
It's just fun. I don't know how you do it
five games at the same time. Like you were talking
about that Miami Jacksonville scenario and the dealer thing, my
head would.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
Yeah, that one is one you know where where you know,
when you kind of get back into what it was
like being down there in that instantaneous moment. And then
with this position. Man, it's not like I can just
offer my you know, quick opinion. You got to be
on point. You know, you're this rules analyst who's supposed
to know everything. So it creates a little bit of tension,
but it's hey, yeah, that's why I did it all

(47:15):
this Year's like, I mean, for whatever reason, you know,
I'd like being uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
We're having a bunch of rabid people screaming. You have
the demeanor for it.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Like I wouldn't have the demeanor I would be I
would be throwing the bird right back at him. Me.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
There are certain people who shouldn't be referees. Yeah, you've
got the demeanor for it. It's a gift. What a
gift you have, right.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
To be abused and not having taken personal Yeah, I've
done a wonderful thing.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Like I'm telling you. Jean's territor brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (47:44):
Gina, thanks for making the trek in here live in
studio with us this morning. Also thanks to Meryl Hodge,
Mark Madden and PFT commenter. Tomorrow on the show, Rick
Seabeck will be live in studio. We'll ask him what
he thought of those calls in the Baltimore game. I'm
kidding now we'll talk about donuts. Also thanks to I
Missy Matthews and Guy Junker. We will join us tomorrow.
Uh and big thanks to Tad Whistle. Of course you're

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coming in today. Thanks Buddy, Thanks Gang.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Sorry to Michelle for running late, but jeans here. We
weren't gonna not run a little bit late today. She'll understand,
she'll but give her a call for the electric lunch
and let her know what you want to hear. We
never run late, This is an anomaly. Never run late,
first time ever. Abby whoops.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
I'm sure you stay classy, Pittsburgh. Don't touch your face.

Speaker 7 (48:31):
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Speaker 1 (48:33):
But now you gotta call me Ronald.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Ronald?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
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Speaker 13 (48:46):
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Speaker 14 (48:57):
Mike tom Wan addressed the media yesterday for his weekly
Prescot Friends Fall and Steeers, went over the Ravens and
provided some updates on the injury front. Keanuvent and James Pierre,
Ben Skroonic, and Wya Black all were banged up in
the game in Baltimore Sunday, and Mike Tomlinson. All four
could participate this week against Miami. Dk Metcalf, who had
a stomach issue after the game, will be limited to
start the week, but is expected to play. Kyle Dugger,
who missed the game in Baltimore with a hand injury,

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was characterized with the same optimism that he could be
back up for Monday night. Andrews Pete, Darnell Washington, and
Malik Harrison are all currently in the concussion protocol and
their statuses are up in the air. The most important
piece of injury news, however, was regarding Derek Harmon, who
will begin practicing in a limited capacity this week after
missing the steelers previous two games.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Harming coming back would be huge for the.

Speaker 14 (49:38):
Steelers defense, who has struggled to stop the run mightily
in the games without the rookie de tackle. In the
four games the team has been without Harmon, they surrender
one hundred and ninety one point twenty five yards rushing
juxtaposed with the ninety six rushing yards per game they allow.
With him out there, you can see how valuable his
presence is. With a team coming off back to back
weeks allowing two hundred yards rushing to their opponent, they

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now stare down another stiff testing Miami Dolphin rushing offense,
which rushed for over two hundred yards last week and
has averaged one hundred and ninety two point twenty five
yards rushing over the team's current four game winning streak.
Potentially getting Harmon back this week could go a long
way and slowing down that put in Miami rushing attack
on Tom Optmen with the Steelers.

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