December 12, 2025 • 34 mins
Dave Dameshek always knew the Steelers were going to beat the Ravens last week and he knows they'll beat the Dolphins on Monday night.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
W t V E Pittsburgh and iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human,
your radio home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. One A two
point five dv. Our next guest is brought to you
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America and Den Levatard's Metal Lark Network. Ladies and gentlemen,
it's our friend, Pittsburgh's own double d Dave Damashek.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, what's up everybody?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait, let let's do it again.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Just say it one more time, Pittsburgh Zone.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Not the whole, not from the top, just just just
you know, right at the very.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
End the day, I'll just say your name, okay, day.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Okay, right, and here we go. Let's redo three two one.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Dave Damashek.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That felt good. I'm glad we went back. Sometimes it's
the word trying to yea up a little bit, okay,
you know what? And and and I feel like that's
in line with the attitude on the banks of the
Three Rivers. Now see all this complain and then belly
ache and things weren't right, and now things feel a
little bit different, don't they. I feel like, like Aaron
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Rodgers said, it's the pasting. The Pittsburgh media has to
stay quiet for this week. Is is that the vibe?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Here's Brandy Ballman, Here's here's the vibe. Okay, a couple
of couple of things.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Number One, Steeler fans are just glad to have one
more week of relevant, relevant football. Okay, and that first
and foremost, Okay, the season didn't end because if they
lose to Baltimore, it's for all intents and purposes, it's
over all right. And they beat Baltimore in Baltimore. They
did it in a way that had John Harbaugh pulling
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his hair out, which is even more satisfactory, you know
what I mean, for some reason, even though it was
you know, it wasn't that the refs helped us. Well,
okay maybe on that one, you know, unnecessary on the
field goal, But that notwithstanding, they're glad, but not in
a way that they're ready to absolve Mike Tomlin for everything.
It's like when you get in an argument with your
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significant other and then you yell at them for something
they did wrong, and then that person goes, you're right,
I was wrong. I'm sorry, and then you go, oh, okay,
all right, I'm glad we agree. You're not quite like
back to kissing and right.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You gotta keep the level of anger or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right, But I'm glad you agree with me. That's that's
where Steeler fans are right now.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, that's the that's the level of discourse that you
want at Christmas. I mean, I sincerely. The idea that
you want to win the super Bowl is obvious. You
want to finish with a title. But these are the
good times right now for if you're in the middle class,
upper middle class, as the Steelers are currently. Although I
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do caution everybody who anybody who looks at it and
feels like and I have when you look on a
piece of paper, I kind of I look at it
and think, like, the Steelers kind of should win the
division now they really should. This would be bad if
they blow it, given what's left and all of that.
But in the meantime, I think you're exactly right. Some
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of my best sports memories are at Christmas time with
the newspaper that's the thing they used to have before
the internet, and sit literally sitting with the with the
with the post gazette open with Uncle Mike and Uncle Scott,
my old man and like I think, wait, so if
we win in week fifteen, we win this one, but
then not that the Oilers have to lose in Cleveland,
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and then if they do, we get the wild card.
I'm pretty sure like that is some of the best
conversation there is. So these are the good times, except
for the fact that it would be bad to blow
it from here on out. Dolphins, Browns. The Steelers are
favored in both of those, I mean, very slim favorites
over the six and seven Dolphins, just a level set
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for Steelers fans who might be feeling a little bit
too optimistic right now at the time of this recording.
Three point favorites is not great against the Mike McDaniel
who was fired six weeks ago. But so if you
assume two wins there, that gets them Denine, I still
think they very likely need Obviously, if they beat the
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Ravens in Week eighteen, it's a rap. But assuming that
the Ravens are playing something and fighting for something, the
Detroit game is the one. Now if we assume even
optimistically that they do handle the Dolphins and the Browns,
I do think that where the Lions are bottom line
is let's root hard for the Lions to lose this
weekend so that they feel like their season is over
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and they sort of come out flat against Pittsburgh in
a week from now. I do not think that all
hash is settled yet in the AFC, nor nor should
anybody else.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, I don't you know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Joe Burrow's press conference on Wednesday was a head scratcher.
It really seems like with their playoff chances being reduced
to I think three percent chance of them getting into
the first season, like they basically need a million things
to happen and they can't lose. He kind of was
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pulling in Andrew Luck. Sounds like he's had all he
can take it. He can't take no more.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So I think I hear you completely, but I do.
I did hear that, and it was it was kind
of like morose for whatever he is. Twenty five twenty
nine multi moult is that right? Geeh? Multi multi millionaire guy?
And it is from a distance. The thing that strikes
me is that somebody who is not a multimillionaire, it's like, man,
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come on, cheer up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Abby Abbey pointed out the perfect part of his whole complaint.
But the batmobile is the Batmobile. Not fun fun, Oh
have to change the oil?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
What a dork. And And yet even in Pittsburgh, PA,
I have to say I find him delightful. I think
he's great. I really do enjoy Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I actually do too. I actually like him. I like
him in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I hate that he plays for the Bengals because I
would like to root for him.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean, sheeesh. Wouldn't it be great if if things
had broken differently and somehow he wound up as the
Steelish QB.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But I shall not coming another team's quarterback in the
same division, Dave.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And that's how you wind up doing desperate things like
signing Joe Flacco. That's the one thing we have avoided
to this point. And I wonder if Joe Burrow did
hang it up. I will say about him, I think
they have better than a puncher's chance. I know he
seems down in the dumps midweek, which ain't great, but
I also think that that emotional swing of like I
got it beat, somebody in his life will probably say
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what we're saying right now, like come on, man, you
bought the batmobile? Come on, do you well? If football's good?
Look at what I got. You look at it, Go
go take a spin in the batmobile and come back
right his rain. I think that if they understand that
the season is over, you want to be relevant for
another week as a human being, and you want to
feel that, Go be Baltimore and do us all a favor,
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Joe Burrow. I think that would restore some sense of meaning,
some self worth as a professional and all the rest
of it. And I legitimately think they might do it.
Not until last Sunday watching what happened in Charms City?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did it?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Did it fully hit me? Maybe the Ravens est ain't great.
Maybe maybe I know, but it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Has lost the step and Lamar and Harbaugh hate each
other and that's clear, and that almost never works. You know,
ask Ben Roethlisberger and Mike Tomlin, who I don't think
we're fast friends in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But Mark Hampton's podcast Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And then Big Ben had him going to Penn State.
You might have him going to Michigan now who knows,
but uh, you know, Mark Andrews is a head case
all of a sudden. I think when it comes to
play in the Black and Gold, at least he's always
responsible for a huge play that results in their demise.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Their defense.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The secondary has one great player and a bunch of
also rans at this point. And you know, and I
pointed this out yesterday, if the Steelers were able to
take advantage of the Ravens secondary with huge, big, big plays,
big chunks of yardage there, what do you think Joe Burrow,
even sad Joe Burrow is gonna do with t Higgins
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and Jamar Chase providing humongous windows to jump through. I mean,
he is gonna have a field day against them, and
then oh, things are gonna spiral in Baltimore. This is
the team. Don't forget. You love to point this out, Dave.
Nobody is bearing the burden of the case of the
suppostas more than the Baltimore Ravens this year.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I mean, here the thing that people, you know, empirical reality,
people want to deny it all the talking head they
swing the football fans' brain in such a way that
we all are are guided at least towards front runners.
You know, we're supposed to swoon over the past deeds
of Patrick Mahomes ensure we should, But this thing about
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like h Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson might miss the playoffs. Well,
free free run for Josh Allen and I guess then
the fact is in the twenty first century, dig this number.
I mean, I think this is a revelation, and I've
mentioned it to you before, but fourteen in the starting
in January of two thousand, fourteen of the last twenty
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six Super Bowl champion winning quarterbacks were between their second
and six seasons. The young guys are the guys who
win most of the Super Bowls, way more than the
guys in their alleged primes or the aged ones. Like
this Phil Rivers thing is is fun and funny and
all the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Boy, funny, funny is the operative word. Honestly, I love it.
He's got It's not even a dad bod.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean, he's looked.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He looks like Jared Lorenzen compared to what he used
to look like.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And I hope, I hope, I hope it happens because
all of us would like, you know, we all like
people sitting up on top of the mountain so that
we can knock him off. And I think they short
just path to doing that is for forty four year
old fat Phil Rivers to come in, come in and
light up the NFL? What what a what a shaming
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of all these other guys. It would be like, I
don't like imagine the press conference is like, hey, QB,
how do you explain you throwing two interceptions on a
Sunday that the old man Phil Rivers just went into
Seattle and lit up the Seahawks. What's the explanation for
that one? There would be nowhere to hide. I think
that here's a good question for you. For you guys, though,
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would you rather have to go into because given the
news in an all time salacious news week in football,
what's what? What would be uh the situation you would
prefer to have to go play a pro football game
at age forty four? Or like Quintin Jammer drunk, or
I'll throw a third option in Ricky Williams high. I
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guys like to play high. I've heard you know a
lot of guys you know that they they say medicinal
reasons after the game and everything else. Some guys like
the burn treat before a game, which I feel like
is the opposite of performance enhancement. Wouldn't I me, wouldn't
you be kind of like, like, if you're Ricky Williams
and like something somebody's trying to tack you'd be like,
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come on, man, you see what I'm trying to do here.
I'm trying to go here, and you're grabbing at me,
and come on.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You know that's the sort of stereotype of the stoner.
There are many people whose psychoactive reaction to THC is
like sinister almost focus on things. You know, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Mean I guess so, so so you're talking go more
with the sativa string rather than the yes.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I'm a little more into God. I'd probably run in
the wrong direction and be like, from.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What I carried the ball?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What more do you want the ball?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I ran with it. Now you're now you're now you're nitpicking.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Come on, Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
We might be This might be hilarious until the first
time he takes a hit and then doesn't get up
and then his rush up to the emergency room.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, if everybody can. I keep hearing people say that,
but sincerely, what I mean was he's he's still six five,
he's still two hundred and thirty pounds or whatever he is.
He's still he was never if he were a guy
if he if he were Cam Newton or Ben Roethlisberger.
And for the same reason that Tom Brady could win
the Super Bowl at forty five but Ben Roethlisberger and
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Cam Newton couldn't get the forty is that it's the
Frank Gore paradox. Frank Gore was never Chris Johnson with
you know, four to two speed or whatever. So when
he got old, he hadn't lost anything because he never
had it in the first place. Same thing with Phil Rivers.
He's never dependent on quick twitch athleticism. So I don't
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know how how much worse could it possibly go? Oh
than what we saw five years ago. All that said,
I'm with you, it's hysterical.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Do you remember when you were a kid and you
were playing basketball on a court and like indoor court,
and you would dive for a ball. Do you ever
do that? Right?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Imagine doing that in your forties, just on a on
a baseball. Imagine what that would feel, how much pain
you would feel from that. Now, go ahead and make
the extrapolation to linebacker running straight for you, you know,
to knock you out, hitting you as hard as you can.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
How many basketball courts. Does that equal?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I hear you, And when you say that, all it
does is remind me of who's the biggest pain in
the ass when you play pick up basketball. It's the
guy who's too old to be out there and people
only half know, which is exactly what Phil Rivers is
going to be with his Colts teammates. I'm aware of
that guy. I've seen him around, but I don't really
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know him. And he wears a headband and in basketball
he pulls the stocks up way too high, and he
might show up in the short shorts. And he's the
guy who defends you twenty seven feet from the rim?
Do you get out of my face?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah? He always u up all over.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He's like blue, like said, chill out, would you please?
It turns all of us into Ricky Williams. It really
is like, will you chill out a little take a
little bit easier. Stop grabbing at me every time. I'm
not gonna do anything from twenty seven feet away from
the rim.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
All right, Dave, let me go. Why do you think
Quentin Jammer came out with that information about one playing drunk?
Like what what made compelled him to like, you know
what I'm bored.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I played drunk eight times. Run with it everyone.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's a great question, but I think it goes back
to the existence of the Jerry Springer Show, right, Like,
I don't where did they dig up all those people
who were willing to go and humiliate themselves like that.
People like attention, Randy, That's what I'm starting to think.
I'm starting to think that, by any means necessary, people
are desperate for somebody to pay attention to them. And
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I think Quentin Jammer had been out of the spot,
like maybe a little bit too long.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
All right, Monday Night Football Mike Tomlin versus Mike McDaniel.
I equated it to getting dunked on by Muggsy Bogues.
It can happen, you don't want it to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I mean, listen, how many times do you need to
see a quarterback who is precise? Which is what two
is if nothing else, you know, and it's it's not
a rollover situation, like the Dolphins are playing for nothing.
There is a path for them. It's implausible because of
the teams they play after Pittsburgh and if they're being realistic,
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But you know, I don't think they're thinking about what's
two weeks or three weeks. It goes back to the
way we started five minutes ago, which is they want
to be relevant for another week. Mike McDaniel wants to
be two and everybody else wants to be and they
keep the ball in the air. If they get the
seven and seven, there is a path for them to
get to the postseason. That's what you kind of don't want.
You want these teams that are you know, I could
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have it both ways. The teams get nervous, like there's
stakes in this game. We have to play our best game.
I also kind of like where if Joe Burrow turns
a corner emotionally and spiritually between now and kickoff, it
could be like Devil make care. But they're no, they're
no steaks for me. The Ravens are supposed to win.
They have all the pressure on them. We have nothing.
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Let's just go light it up and score sixty eight
points tonight kind of vibe. The Dolphins are capable. They're
not a bum team, and you know that Mike McDaniel
for all to talk about too and and all of that.
They like to run the ball. So the Steelers better
be be ready to do to attempt to do better.
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I mean, this ongoing thinks their inability to stop the
run it is trouble. I do think that they figure out,
given the history of Monday Night football and all of that,
that the Steelers will show up.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And Tom's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm just not I mean, at three points, I forget
about all that straight up winner. That's as far as
I'm willing to go with Pittsburgh. And the other thing
that I have to say before we go is I
thought that the Isaiah likely thing for real. I know
people call me biased and probably not in safe, safe
waters like we're in right now, but the Isaiah likely
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thing that should have been a touchdown is The argument
that I've heard is if that were on the sideline,
it would have been a catch. And my argument is
that's exactly why it wasn't a catch in the end zone.
Two feet down and then the dB immediately slaps it
out of your hand. That would be a no catch
along the sideline anywhere. Why would the rule be different
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in the end zone? One two bang, the ball is out.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It wasn't a touchdown there.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
The end zone is different. That's why because the end
zone is different, and that's.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Why if you fumble through the end zone, it's a
touchback on the other way, because the end zone is
not like every other place, so you can't equate it
to any other place.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
The end zone remains its own special place. You have
different rules for it, and that's what makes it good.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I listen, I'm not gonna argue with the with the
officials good. I'm glad that it made all of charm City.
If you want to have a good laugh Steelers fans
in your free time this weekend, dig up the steel
shots of Isaiah Likely and focus beyond him and into
the crowd. Look at all the people reacting when they
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thought that was a touchdown, their cheerleaders slipping, cheering wildly.
It's the happiest moment of their life. And in about
a second and a half. It's sort of like when
that that moment when you when you stub your toe
and then you know, like all the pain's about to arrive.
It's not here yet, Ah, there it is, and now
you're upset. You you can do that, but if you're
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not gonna feel the hey, you know they are about
to feel the pain. In the image which already happened,
and they're still sad about it all these days later.
It's delightful.
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He literally crawled out of the pit. You really adopted
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the doc.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
I was traded into it, and then quickly the dark
was like, boys, hands were small, maybe we should draft
be on Sun.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And then somebody who was like.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Jeez, we already have a lot of quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
But they're good at anyway, and then they traded me
one more time to somewhere even darker. Now I'm older
and wiser, but mostly older because I graduated when I
was like twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So why am I not on the fence about picket?
That's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Plus eleven for one thing.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The Eagles are coming off on Monday night West Coast
heartbreaker that caused even more locker room in fighting. And additionally,
they got one less day of rest than pickets plunderers,
and overall, the Eagles are a mess. Their Super Bowl
hangover is the football equivalent of Tiger Woods waking up
half hanging out of the driver's seat of his top
parked on top of his mailbox, still tripping on ambient
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and eighteen Mick ultras while his wife throttled him with
a nine iron for nailing a pancake waitress. But don't
pull it together and cover against the Raiders, right, No.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
They dropped three straight. They barely won against the teams
they have beat. Not to mention, this is the same
Raiders team that kicked a meaningless field goal last week
as time expired just.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
To cover the spread.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In all time blatant backdoor cover from Pete Carroll, who
I guess figures the only way to save his job
in Vegas at this point is to appease degenerate Campbeller's
God bless him. So unless the temperatures drop so low
that Kenny has to wear two pairs of gloves on Sunday,
an actual possibility for mister dollhands take the Raiders and
the Points with Pete Carroll, It's guaranteed backdoor action. Abby.
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I'd like credit for refraining from the easy joke there.
I had a bunch of them, including one about Elton
John on his birthday. Next Raven's as plus two and
a half. Nothing quite like two sub five hundred teams
playing one another in December with playoff implications on the line.
What's becoming the AFC North. We used to have a
proper division, the toughest in the NFL. This year, the
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AFC North is kind of like Station Square. I swear
it was great, just like a year ago. What happened?
These two teams already met once on Thanksgiving when Lamar
and Company burned it up five times en route to
a thirty two to fourteen shillaking in Burrows return, and
now it's desperation time in Baltimore. Last week's loss to
the Steelers means the Ravens need this win like Pat
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McAfee needs a throat lossenge. The Ravens lose this one
and their playoff hopes are slimmer than one of the
stars of the movie Wicked. And while there's plenty of
time to plenty of blame, rather to go around Harball's
doing that thing where he holds one hand up as
a shield and then behind that he points at Lamar fault.
Lamar's missed a bunch of practice because of injuries, and
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it sounds like harms ain't two throw it, he told reporters. Quote,
if it's not the best thing to practice because you
want to get your body right, I think you have
to respect that as a coach, So I respect Lamar
and his judgment. Translation, why won't you practice, you lazy wuss.
Lamar's completion percentage has been under sixty the last five
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games straight, and the Ravens d gave up a bunch
of big plays to the Steelers, who aren't exactly known.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
For that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
How do you think the fair against Burrow and the
boys who routinely gashed defenses. Joey b at four touchdown
passes last week against Buffalo. Schrrey threw a couple of
picks back to back. One was a pick six, but
it was a blizzard. If not for that, the Bengals
get out of Buffalo with the win, and they're the
ones we're worried about. And yes, I saw the press
conference where Joe Burrow said yesterday he's not been having
fun and contemplates whether or not to keep playing. Yes,
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it seemed like a football suicide. Note no, it's not
exactly the stuff that makes you want to run into
a battle with him like Braveheart. But Joe's a gamer,
and that Baltimore secondary is gonna leave some big windows
for MOPI Joe. That'll give me two juicy to pass up.
Take Burrow and over.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Passing yards on Sunday, and like Jethro Tall, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Bong gals in their jaw. Dolphins up these Steelers minus.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Three the main event Monday night.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel looks like the dude at the
Apple store who condescendingly asks you if you tried turning
your phone off and back on again before he attempts
to fix it. Losing to McDaniel's like getting dunked on
by Muggsy Bogues. It could happen, you just don't want
to happen to you. The credit where credits do. He's
turned this team around in short order, and while everyone
else was calling for the head Dolphins job, McDaniel.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Said, eh, eh.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The Dolphins are hoping to ride the A chain to
an upset win over the Steelers Devon A chain. That is,
if the Steelers run defense is as bad as it
was against the Bills, they won't not only won't be
able to stop a chain, they won't be able to
stop the b chain or the sin And if Derek
Harmon doesn't play on Monday Night, the Steelers are gonna
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need my mom to start a prayer chain for their
run defense. And that's not as hopeless as you might think.
My mom said. They prayed away Missus Chanley's goiter last month,
so anything's possible.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
In the nine games Harmon.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Has played this year, the Steelers have only allowed an
average of ninety six yards rushing per game.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
In the four games Harmon didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Play, Steelers fans nearly tore the stadium apart, called for
Tomlin's job and boots sticks. Jeremy Renner didn't get run
over as bad as the harmonless Steelers do. The other
big storyline in this one is Fitzpatrick's revenge. Now, I'm
not talking about the green diarrhea you get after Saint
Patty's they prayed. I'm talking about former Steeler safety Makea
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Fitzpatrick returning to Akricher Stadium for the first time since
being traded back to the Dolphins. The Steelers gave up
a first round pick for Maca in twenty nineteen, which
allowed us to enjoy Duck Hodges to quack his way
into our hearts with a three and three record as
a starter that made us miss out on Justin Herbert
in the draft the next year, which, look, it's worth it, Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
The Duck year was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
It was like taking a semester at college because you're
part of your balls off. We were making memories there.
Mink has always honked off about something. One time bitching
so much at Tarrell Austin when he was hurt, he
got Toman to call time out and change the defense
for a game winning interception.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Against the Packers.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He famously complained that the Steelers had a work ethic
problem or frame. We hear more often than jingle bells
this time of the year, by the way, and Mike
Tomlin labeled him ornery and sent him back to the
team from which they acquired, Miami, the NFL equivalent of
being lost luggage a pointless, circuitous journey. Steelers fans always
complained Minca didn't make enough splash plays, and his defenders
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would tell you, we have to appreciate the plays that
Minca didn't make, like he was playing jazz instead of football.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So MinC is revenge, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Temperatures are expected to be in the teens and Tua
is oh for lifetime.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
When the temperatures are under forty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Steelers just need to do the football equivalent of taking
a moodium load up against the runs and.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Watch two go free and out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Tomlin's gonna send Dark Boy in his vape pens back
to Florida and then smoke stuggies with Jay Lazer and
Brett Michaels all night long.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Steelers fly, the Dolphins take the good guys.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's it. I guarantee the possible winners for you this week.
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If you're Pittsburgh, Dearly beloved friends, haters and douchebags that
have advanced to the playoffs were gathered here today to
mourn the death of your terrible twenty twenty five fantasy
football team. For those of you who did not know
that departed. They came into this world, as so many do,
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drafted in late August amid much hope and promise. This
team seemed bound for big things. Expectations were high and
why wouldn't they be? After all, you secured an elite
wide receiving tandem and Tyreek Hill and aj Brown. You
had Bell Cows in the backfield with Saquon and Breis Hall.
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This was your year, and so this squad plucked from
the stars, was given a name fit for a champion,
Steve Suck. A cheeky tip of the cat to your
brother in law, Steve, who, in all fairness, sucks. But
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the best slave plans often go awry, and a rocky
season followed. Whether it was injuries, no show performances, or
every dunce in your league having their hot week against
your team, you quickly found yourself behind the gate ball.
It was the kind of year that would make you
quit fantasy football altogether if you were a total loser,
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like Notre Dame. But through adversity, real champions are born,
and Steve Sucks would not go gentle into that good night.
You spent hours on Reddit, consuming the advice of strangers.
You sifted through hot garbage on the waiver wire. Week
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after week, you skipped your daughter's soccer game to see
if Jerome Ford could score two measly points against the Jets.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
He could not. This team was your baby.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
You loved it like your own and sometimes love makes
you do crazy things like text a picture of a
three D printed gun to the league group chat at
one in the morning, which again was a joke. It
was from Google Images. It's not like you own that, sheesh.
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You may have finished tenth in the league, but you
were seventh in points, which is sort of similar to
the Tomlin No losing season's sting.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
But still no one can take that away from you.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
For some, the end of the fantasy football season means
venmoing a dude you now hate fifty bucks with the
memo choke on it. For others, it involves a heinous
punishment which you have to gratify yourself in the restroom
of a waffle house. But as we now lay Steve
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Sucks and all the other loser fantasy teams to rest.
Just remember fantasy football is deeply stupid and no one
wants to hear you talk about it. Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust.
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Speaker 8 (33:38):
The Steelers try to build off their big win against
the Baltimore Ravens when they welcome the six and seven
Miami Dolphins to town, who are red hot riding a
four game winning streak into Pittsburgh for Monday Night Football.
One thing going in the favor of the Black and
Gold Monday Night will be the freezing temperatures expected at
game time. Right now, the feels like projection for kickoff
Monday is supposed to be nine degrees and that's a
death sentence for the Miami Dolphins and has been for
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almost a decade Miami. He hasn't won a game when
the temperature has been below forty degrees since twenty sixteen
against Buffalo, and their quarterback to a tongue of Iloa,
has a record of zero to five in his career
anytime the ten fips below forty degrees. Despite the weather
advantage Pittsburgh will have over Miami and their quarterback, Tua
also plays into the Steelers defense's hands in another key way.
Tua is currently tied for the league leading interceptions of
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this season, having been picked off fourteen times, which bodes
well for a Steelers defense that has eleven picks on
the season. The problem is you have to get Ta
to throw the ball to pick him off, and the
Dolphins have been hiding him during their winning streak, averaging
just about twenty one pass attempts per game in that
four game streak. Of course, the Dolphins feel no obligation
to pass the ball, seeing as they're averaging one hundred
and ninety two rushing yards per game during their winning streak,
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So it will be a major key for the Steelers
defense to stop that rushing attack, force Tua to air
it out, pick him off, and win the game. Steelers
and Dolphins kick off at eight fifteen Monday night at
Akashuer Stadium. I'm Tom Offerman with the Steelers Report.
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America and Den Levatard's Metal Lark Network. Ladies and gentlemen,
it's our friend, Pittsburgh's own double d Dave Damashek.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, what's up everybody?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait, let let's do it again.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Just say it one more time, Pittsburgh Zone.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Not the whole, not from the top, just just just
you know, right at the very.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
End the day, I'll just say your name, okay, day.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Okay, right, and here we go. Let's redo three two one.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Dave Damashek.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That felt good. I'm glad we went back. Sometimes it's
the word trying to yea up a little bit, okay,
you know what? And and and I feel like that's
in line with the attitude on the banks of the
Three Rivers. Now see all this complain and then belly
ache and things weren't right, and now things feel a
little bit different, don't they. I feel like, like Aaron
(01:30):
Rodgers said, it's the pasting. The Pittsburgh media has to
stay quiet for this week. Is is that the vibe?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Here's Brandy Ballman, Here's here's the vibe. Okay, a couple
of couple of things.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Number One, Steeler fans are just glad to have one
more week of relevant, relevant football. Okay, and that first
and foremost, Okay, the season didn't end because if they
lose to Baltimore, it's for all intents and purposes, it's
over all right. And they beat Baltimore in Baltimore. They
did it in a way that had John Harbaugh pulling
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his hair out, which is even more satisfactory, you know
what I mean, for some reason, even though it was
you know, it wasn't that the refs helped us. Well,
okay maybe on that one, you know, unnecessary on the
field goal, But that notwithstanding, they're glad, but not in
a way that they're ready to absolve Mike Tomlin for everything.
It's like when you get in an argument with your
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significant other and then you yell at them for something
they did wrong, and then that person goes, you're right,
I was wrong. I'm sorry, and then you go, oh, okay,
all right, I'm glad we agree. You're not quite like
back to kissing and right.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You gotta keep the level of anger or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Right, But I'm glad you agree with me. That's that's
where Steeler fans are right now.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, that's the that's the level of discourse that you
want at Christmas. I mean, I sincerely. The idea that
you want to win the super Bowl is obvious. You
want to finish with a title. But these are the
good times right now for if you're in the middle class,
upper middle class, as the Steelers are currently. Although I
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do caution everybody who anybody who looks at it and
feels like and I have when you look on a
piece of paper, I kind of I look at it
and think, like, the Steelers kind of should win the
division now they really should. This would be bad if
they blow it, given what's left and all of that.
But in the meantime, I think you're exactly right. Some
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of my best sports memories are at Christmas time with
the newspaper that's the thing they used to have before
the internet, and sit literally sitting with the with the
with the post gazette open with Uncle Mike and Uncle Scott,
my old man and like I think, wait, so if
we win in week fifteen, we win this one, but
then not that the Oilers have to lose in Cleveland,
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and then if they do, we get the wild card.
I'm pretty sure like that is some of the best
conversation there is. So these are the good times, except
for the fact that it would be bad to blow
it from here on out. Dolphins, Browns. The Steelers are
favored in both of those, I mean, very slim favorites
over the six and seven Dolphins, just a level set
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for Steelers fans who might be feeling a little bit
too optimistic right now at the time of this recording.
Three point favorites is not great against the Mike McDaniel
who was fired six weeks ago. But so if you
assume two wins there, that gets them Denine, I still
think they very likely need Obviously, if they beat the
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Ravens in Week eighteen, it's a rap. But assuming that
the Ravens are playing something and fighting for something, the
Detroit game is the one. Now if we assume even
optimistically that they do handle the Dolphins and the Browns,
I do think that where the Lions are bottom line
is let's root hard for the Lions to lose this
weekend so that they feel like their season is over
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and they sort of come out flat against Pittsburgh in
a week from now. I do not think that all
hash is settled yet in the AFC, nor nor should
anybody else.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Well, I don't you know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Joe Burrow's press conference on Wednesday was a head scratcher.
It really seems like with their playoff chances being reduced
to I think three percent chance of them getting into
the first season, like they basically need a million things
to happen and they can't lose. He kind of was
(05:33):
pulling in Andrew Luck. Sounds like he's had all he
can take it. He can't take no more.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
So I think I hear you completely, but I do.
I did hear that, and it was it was kind
of like morose for whatever he is. Twenty five twenty
nine multi moult is that right? Geeh? Multi multi millionaire guy?
And it is from a distance. The thing that strikes
me is that somebody who is not a multimillionaire, it's like, man,
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come on, cheer up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Abby Abbey pointed out the perfect part of his whole complaint.
But the batmobile is the Batmobile. Not fun fun, Oh
have to change the oil?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
What a dork. And And yet even in Pittsburgh, PA,
I have to say I find him delightful. I think
he's great. I really do enjoy Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I actually do too. I actually like him. I like
him in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I hate that he plays for the Bengals because I
would like to root for him.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean, sheeesh. Wouldn't it be great if if things
had broken differently and somehow he wound up as the
Steelish QB.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
But I shall not coming another team's quarterback in the
same division, Dave.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And that's how you wind up doing desperate things like
signing Joe Flacco. That's the one thing we have avoided
to this point. And I wonder if Joe Burrow did
hang it up. I will say about him, I think
they have better than a puncher's chance. I know he
seems down in the dumps midweek, which ain't great, but
I also think that that emotional swing of like I
got it beat, somebody in his life will probably say
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what we're saying right now, like come on, man, you
bought the batmobile? Come on, do you well? If football's good?
Look at what I got. You look at it, Go
go take a spin in the batmobile and come back
right his rain. I think that if they understand that
the season is over, you want to be relevant for
another week as a human being, and you want to
feel that, Go be Baltimore and do us all a favor,
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Joe Burrow. I think that would restore some sense of meaning,
some self worth as a professional and all the rest
of it. And I legitimately think they might do it.
Not until last Sunday watching what happened in Charms City?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did it?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Did it fully hit me? Maybe the Ravens est ain't great.
Maybe maybe I know, but it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Has lost the step and Lamar and Harbaugh hate each
other and that's clear, and that almost never works. You know,
ask Ben Roethlisberger and Mike Tomlin, who I don't think
we're fast friends in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But Mark Hampton's podcast Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And then Big Ben had him going to Penn State.
You might have him going to Michigan now who knows,
but uh, you know, Mark Andrews is a head case
all of a sudden. I think when it comes to
play in the Black and Gold, at least he's always
responsible for a huge play that results in their demise.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Their defense.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
The secondary has one great player and a bunch of
also rans at this point. And you know, and I
pointed this out yesterday, if the Steelers were able to
take advantage of the Ravens secondary with huge, big, big plays,
big chunks of yardage there, what do you think Joe Burrow,
even sad Joe Burrow is gonna do with t Higgins
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and Jamar Chase providing humongous windows to jump through. I mean,
he is gonna have a field day against them, and
then oh, things are gonna spiral in Baltimore. This is
the team. Don't forget. You love to point this out, Dave.
Nobody is bearing the burden of the case of the
suppostas more than the Baltimore Ravens this year.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I mean, here the thing that people, you know, empirical reality,
people want to deny it all the talking head they
swing the football fans' brain in such a way that
we all are are guided at least towards front runners.
You know, we're supposed to swoon over the past deeds
of Patrick Mahomes ensure we should, But this thing about
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like h Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson might miss the playoffs. Well,
free free run for Josh Allen and I guess then
the fact is in the twenty first century, dig this number.
I mean, I think this is a revelation, and I've
mentioned it to you before, but fourteen in the starting
in January of two thousand, fourteen of the last twenty
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six Super Bowl champion winning quarterbacks were between their second
and six seasons. The young guys are the guys who
win most of the Super Bowls, way more than the
guys in their alleged primes or the aged ones. Like
this Phil Rivers thing is is fun and funny and
all the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Boy, funny, funny is the operative word. Honestly, I love it.
He's got It's not even a dad bod.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean, he's looked.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He looks like Jared Lorenzen compared to what he used
to look like.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And I hope, I hope, I hope it happens because
all of us would like, you know, we all like
people sitting up on top of the mountain so that
we can knock him off. And I think they short
just path to doing that is for forty four year
old fat Phil Rivers to come in, come in and
light up the NFL? What what a what a shaming
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of all these other guys. It would be like, I
don't like imagine the press conference is like, hey, QB,
how do you explain you throwing two interceptions on a
Sunday that the old man Phil Rivers just went into
Seattle and lit up the Seahawks. What's the explanation for
that one? There would be nowhere to hide. I think
that here's a good question for you. For you guys, though,
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would you rather have to go into because given the
news in an all time salacious news week in football,
what's what? What would be uh the situation you would
prefer to have to go play a pro football game
at age forty four? Or like Quintin Jammer drunk, or
I'll throw a third option in Ricky Williams high. I
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guys like to play high. I've heard you know a
lot of guys you know that they they say medicinal
reasons after the game and everything else. Some guys like
the burn treat before a game, which I feel like
is the opposite of performance enhancement. Wouldn't I me, wouldn't
you be kind of like, like, if you're Ricky Williams
and like something somebody's trying to tack you'd be like,
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come on, man, you see what I'm trying to do here.
I'm trying to go here, and you're grabbing at me,
and come on.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
You know that's the sort of stereotype of the stoner.
There are many people whose psychoactive reaction to THC is
like sinister almost focus on things. You know, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Mean I guess so, so so you're talking go more
with the sativa string rather than the yes.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I'm a little more into God. I'd probably run in
the wrong direction and be like, from.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What I carried the ball?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What more do you want the ball?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I ran with it. Now you're now you're now you're nitpicking.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Come on, Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
We might be This might be hilarious until the first
time he takes a hit and then doesn't get up
and then his rush up to the emergency room.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, if everybody can. I keep hearing people say that,
but sincerely, what I mean was he's he's still six five,
he's still two hundred and thirty pounds or whatever he is.
He's still he was never if he were a guy
if he if he were Cam Newton or Ben Roethlisberger.
And for the same reason that Tom Brady could win
the Super Bowl at forty five but Ben Roethlisberger and
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Cam Newton couldn't get the forty is that it's the
Frank Gore paradox. Frank Gore was never Chris Johnson with
you know, four to two speed or whatever. So when
he got old, he hadn't lost anything because he never
had it in the first place. Same thing with Phil Rivers.
He's never dependent on quick twitch athleticism. So I don't
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know how how much worse could it possibly go? Oh
than what we saw five years ago. All that said,
I'm with you, it's hysterical.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Do you remember when you were a kid and you
were playing basketball on a court and like indoor court,
and you would dive for a ball. Do you ever
do that? Right?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Imagine doing that in your forties, just on a on
a baseball. Imagine what that would feel, how much pain
you would feel from that. Now, go ahead and make
the extrapolation to linebacker running straight for you, you know,
to knock you out, hitting you as hard as you can.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
How many basketball courts. Does that equal?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I hear you, And when you say that, all it
does is remind me of who's the biggest pain in
the ass when you play pick up basketball. It's the
guy who's too old to be out there and people
only half know, which is exactly what Phil Rivers is
going to be with his Colts teammates. I'm aware of
that guy. I've seen him around, but I don't really
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know him. And he wears a headband and in basketball
he pulls the stocks up way too high, and he
might show up in the short shorts. And he's the
guy who defends you twenty seven feet from the rim?
Do you get out of my face?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah? He always u up all over.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
He's like blue, like said, chill out, would you please?
It turns all of us into Ricky Williams. It really
is like, will you chill out a little take a
little bit easier. Stop grabbing at me every time. I'm
not gonna do anything from twenty seven feet away from
the rim.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
All right, Dave, let me go. Why do you think
Quentin Jammer came out with that information about one playing drunk?
Like what what made compelled him to like, you know
what I'm bored.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I played drunk eight times. Run with it everyone.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's a great question, but I think it goes back
to the existence of the Jerry Springer Show, right, Like,
I don't where did they dig up all those people
who were willing to go and humiliate themselves like that.
People like attention, Randy, That's what I'm starting to think.
I'm starting to think that, by any means necessary, people
are desperate for somebody to pay attention to them. And
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I think Quentin Jammer had been out of the spot,
like maybe a little bit too long.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
All right, Monday Night Football Mike Tomlin versus Mike McDaniel.
I equated it to getting dunked on by Muggsy Bogues.
It can happen, you don't want it to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I mean, listen, how many times do you need to
see a quarterback who is precise? Which is what two
is if nothing else, you know, and it's it's not
a rollover situation, like the Dolphins are playing for nothing.
There is a path for them. It's implausible because of
the teams they play after Pittsburgh and if they're being realistic,
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But you know, I don't think they're thinking about what's
two weeks or three weeks. It goes back to the
way we started five minutes ago, which is they want
to be relevant for another week. Mike McDaniel wants to
be two and everybody else wants to be and they
keep the ball in the air. If they get the
seven and seven, there is a path for them to
get to the postseason. That's what you kind of don't want.
You want these teams that are you know, I could
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have it both ways. The teams get nervous, like there's
stakes in this game. We have to play our best game.
I also kind of like where if Joe Burrow turns
a corner emotionally and spiritually between now and kickoff, it
could be like Devil make care. But they're no, they're
no steaks for me. The Ravens are supposed to win.
They have all the pressure on them. We have nothing.
(17:33):
Let's just go light it up and score sixty eight
points tonight kind of vibe. The Dolphins are capable. They're
not a bum team, and you know that Mike McDaniel
for all to talk about too and and all of that.
They like to run the ball. So the Steelers better
be be ready to do to attempt to do better.
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I mean, this ongoing thinks their inability to stop the
run it is trouble. I do think that they figure out,
given the history of Monday Night football and all of that,
that the Steelers will show up.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And Tom's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm just not I mean, at three points, I forget
about all that straight up winner. That's as far as
I'm willing to go with Pittsburgh. And the other thing
that I have to say before we go is I
thought that the Isaiah likely thing for real. I know
people call me biased and probably not in safe, safe
waters like we're in right now, but the Isaiah likely
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thing that should have been a touchdown is The argument
that I've heard is if that were on the sideline,
it would have been a catch. And my argument is
that's exactly why it wasn't a catch in the end zone.
Two feet down and then the dB immediately slaps it
out of your hand. That would be a no catch
along the sideline anywhere. Why would the rule be different
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in the end zone? One two bang, the ball is out.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It wasn't a touchdown there.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
The end zone is different. That's why because the end
zone is different, and that's.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Why if you fumble through the end zone, it's a
touchback on the other way, because the end zone is
not like every other place, so you can't equate it
to any other place.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
The end zone remains its own special place. You have
different rules for it, and that's what makes it good.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I listen, I'm not gonna argue with the with the
officials good. I'm glad that it made all of charm City.
If you want to have a good laugh Steelers fans
in your free time this weekend, dig up the steel
shots of Isaiah Likely and focus beyond him and into
the crowd. Look at all the people reacting when they
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thought that was a touchdown, their cheerleaders slipping, cheering wildly.
It's the happiest moment of their life. And in about
a second and a half. It's sort of like when
that that moment when you when you stub your toe
and then you know, like all the pain's about to arrive.
It's not here yet, Ah, there it is, and now
you're upset. You you can do that, but if you're
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not gonna feel the hey, you know they are about
to feel the pain. In the image which already happened,
and they're still sad about it all these days later.
It's delightful.
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A good one made the I made up for it.
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V Morning Show Randy Bauman, along with Abby Krisner and
Mike Pursuda. Our buddy Joe Bartnick in studio with us
this morning as well. It's time for our three and
out segment where I picked three games for you that
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are guaranteed to probably, maybe possibly win. It's brought to
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I looking at here? Game number one, the Raiders at
the Eagles minus eleven, The Kenny Pickett Revenge Game. Kenneth
Shane Pickett returns to Philadelphia to face the team he
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helped propel to a Super Bowl win, the Eagles, who,
without gratitude for the seven snaps he mopped up in
Super Bowl fifty nine, literally threw him to the dogs
in Cleveland, Cleveland, who before he played one down of
football for them, tossed him into the black hole of
the Raiders, where he is sat on the bench learning nothing,
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by the way, and now he's finally poised to emerge
his starter. And you want to bet against Kenny Pickett, yep,
and spot him eleven points this Sunday? What would you
spot bane eleven points? Because Kenny Pickett is football Bane.
He literally crawled out of the pit. You really adopted
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the doc.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
I was traded into it, and then quickly the dark
was like, boys, hands were small, maybe we should draft
be on Sun.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And then somebody who was like.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Jeez, we already have a lot of quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
But they're good at anyway, and then they traded me
one more time to somewhere even darker. Now I'm older
and wiser, but mostly older because I graduated when I
was like twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So why am I not on the fence about picket?
That's what I'm wondering.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Plus eleven for one thing.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The Eagles are coming off on Monday night West Coast
heartbreaker that caused even more locker room in fighting. And additionally,
they got one less day of rest than pickets plunderers,
and overall, the Eagles are a mess. Their Super Bowl
hangover is the football equivalent of Tiger Woods waking up
half hanging out of the driver's seat of his top
parked on top of his mailbox, still tripping on ambient
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and eighteen Mick ultras while his wife throttled him with
a nine iron for nailing a pancake waitress. But don't
pull it together and cover against the Raiders, right, No.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
They dropped three straight. They barely won against the teams
they have beat. Not to mention, this is the same
Raiders team that kicked a meaningless field goal last week
as time expired just.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
To cover the spread.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In all time blatant backdoor cover from Pete Carroll, who
I guess figures the only way to save his job
in Vegas at this point is to appease degenerate Campbeller's
God bless him. So unless the temperatures drop so low
that Kenny has to wear two pairs of gloves on Sunday,
an actual possibility for mister dollhands take the Raiders and
the Points with Pete Carroll, It's guaranteed backdoor action. Abby.
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I'd like credit for refraining from the easy joke there.
I had a bunch of them, including one about Elton
John on his birthday. Next Raven's as plus two and
a half. Nothing quite like two sub five hundred teams
playing one another in December with playoff implications on the line.
What's becoming the AFC North. We used to have a
proper division, the toughest in the NFL. This year, the
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AFC North is kind of like Station Square. I swear
it was great, just like a year ago. What happened?
These two teams already met once on Thanksgiving when Lamar
and Company burned it up five times en route to
a thirty two to fourteen shillaking in Burrows return, and
now it's desperation time in Baltimore. Last week's loss to
the Steelers means the Ravens need this win like Pat
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McAfee needs a throat lossenge. The Ravens lose this one
and their playoff hopes are slimmer than one of the
stars of the movie Wicked. And while there's plenty of
time to plenty of blame, rather to go around Harball's
doing that thing where he holds one hand up as
a shield and then behind that he points at Lamar fault.
Lamar's missed a bunch of practice because of injuries, and
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it sounds like harms ain't two throw it, he told reporters. Quote,
if it's not the best thing to practice because you
want to get your body right, I think you have
to respect that as a coach, So I respect Lamar
and his judgment. Translation, why won't you practice, you lazy wuss.
Lamar's completion percentage has been under sixty the last five
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games straight, and the Ravens d gave up a bunch
of big plays to the Steelers, who aren't exactly known.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
For that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
How do you think the fair against Burrow and the
boys who routinely gashed defenses. Joey b at four touchdown
passes last week against Buffalo. Schrrey threw a couple of
picks back to back. One was a pick six, but
it was a blizzard. If not for that, the Bengals
get out of Buffalo with the win, and they're the
ones we're worried about. And yes, I saw the press
conference where Joe Burrow said yesterday he's not been having
fun and contemplates whether or not to keep playing. Yes,
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it seemed like a football suicide. Note no, it's not
exactly the stuff that makes you want to run into
a battle with him like Braveheart. But Joe's a gamer,
and that Baltimore secondary is gonna leave some big windows
for MOPI Joe. That'll give me two juicy to pass up.
Take Burrow and over.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Passing yards on Sunday, and like Jethro Tall, I'm going.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Bong gals in their jaw. Dolphins up these Steelers minus.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Three the main event Monday night.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel looks like the dude at the
Apple store who condescendingly asks you if you tried turning
your phone off and back on again before he attempts
to fix it. Losing to McDaniel's like getting dunked on
by Muggsy Bogues. It could happen, you just don't want
to happen to you. The credit where credits do. He's
turned this team around in short order, and while everyone
else was calling for the head Dolphins job, McDaniel.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Said, eh, eh.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The Dolphins are hoping to ride the A chain to
an upset win over the Steelers Devon A chain. That is,
if the Steelers run defense is as bad as it
was against the Bills, they won't not only won't be
able to stop a chain, they won't be able to
stop the b chain or the sin And if Derek
Harmon doesn't play on Monday Night, the Steelers are gonna
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need my mom to start a prayer chain for their
run defense. And that's not as hopeless as you might think.
My mom said. They prayed away Missus Chanley's goiter last month,
so anything's possible.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
In the nine games Harmon.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Has played this year, the Steelers have only allowed an
average of ninety six yards rushing per game.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
In the four games Harmon didn't.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Play, Steelers fans nearly tore the stadium apart, called for
Tomlin's job and boots sticks. Jeremy Renner didn't get run
over as bad as the harmonless Steelers do. The other
big storyline in this one is Fitzpatrick's revenge. Now, I'm
not talking about the green diarrhea you get after Saint
Patty's they prayed. I'm talking about former Steeler safety Makea
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Fitzpatrick returning to Akricher Stadium for the first time since
being traded back to the Dolphins. The Steelers gave up
a first round pick for Maca in twenty nineteen, which
allowed us to enjoy Duck Hodges to quack his way
into our hearts with a three and three record as
a starter that made us miss out on Justin Herbert
in the draft the next year, which, look, it's worth it, Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
The Duck year was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
It was like taking a semester at college because you're
part of your balls off. We were making memories there.
Mink has always honked off about something. One time bitching
so much at Tarrell Austin when he was hurt, he
got Toman to call time out and change the defense
for a game winning interception.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Against the Packers.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He famously complained that the Steelers had a work ethic
problem or frame. We hear more often than jingle bells
this time of the year, by the way, and Mike
Tomlin labeled him ornery and sent him back to the
team from which they acquired, Miami, the NFL equivalent of
being lost luggage a pointless, circuitous journey. Steelers fans always
complained Minca didn't make enough splash plays, and his defenders
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would tell you, we have to appreciate the plays that
Minca didn't make, like he was playing jazz instead of football.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So MinC is revenge, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Temperatures are expected to be in the teens and Tua
is oh for lifetime.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
When the temperatures are under forty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Steelers just need to do the football equivalent of taking
a moodium load up against the runs and.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Watch two go free and out.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Tomlin's gonna send Dark Boy in his vape pens back
to Florida and then smoke stuggies with Jay Lazer and
Brett Michaels all night long.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Steelers fly, the Dolphins take the good guys.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's it. I guarantee the possible winners for you this week.
I'm courtesy of the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
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Speaker 5 (29:55):
If you can't get enough.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
If you're Pittsburgh, Dearly beloved friends, haters and douchebags that
have advanced to the playoffs were gathered here today to
mourn the death of your terrible twenty twenty five fantasy
football team. For those of you who did not know
that departed. They came into this world, as so many do,
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drafted in late August amid much hope and promise. This
team seemed bound for big things. Expectations were high and
why wouldn't they be? After all, you secured an elite
wide receiving tandem and Tyreek Hill and aj Brown. You
had Bell Cows in the backfield with Saquon and Breis Hall.
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This was your year, and so this squad plucked from
the stars, was given a name fit for a champion,
Steve Suck. A cheeky tip of the cat to your
brother in law, Steve, who, in all fairness, sucks. But
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the best slave plans often go awry, and a rocky
season followed. Whether it was injuries, no show performances, or
every dunce in your league having their hot week against
your team, you quickly found yourself behind the gate ball.
It was the kind of year that would make you
quit fantasy football altogether if you were a total loser,
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like Notre Dame. But through adversity, real champions are born,
and Steve Sucks would not go gentle into that good night.
You spent hours on Reddit, consuming the advice of strangers.
You sifted through hot garbage on the waiver wire. Week
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after week, you skipped your daughter's soccer game to see
if Jerome Ford could score two measly points against the Jets.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
He could not. This team was your baby.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
You loved it like your own and sometimes love makes
you do crazy things like text a picture of a
three D printed gun to the league group chat at
one in the morning, which again was a joke. It
was from Google Images. It's not like you own that, sheesh.
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You may have finished tenth in the league, but you
were seventh in points, which is sort of similar to
the Tomlin No losing season's sting.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
But still no one can take that away from you.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
For some, the end of the fantasy football season means
venmoing a dude you now hate fifty bucks with the
memo choke on it. For others, it involves a heinous
punishment which you have to gratify yourself in the restroom
of a waffle house. But as we now lay Steve
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Sucks and all the other loser fantasy teams to rest.
Just remember fantasy football is deeply stupid and no one
wants to hear you talk about it. Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by Independence Health System Expert Care.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Here a Steelers pro shop.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
Here's Tom Opferman.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
The Steelers try to build off their big win against
the Baltimore Ravens when they welcome the six and seven
Miami Dolphins to town, who are red hot riding a
four game winning streak into Pittsburgh for Monday Night Football.
One thing going in the favor of the Black and
Gold Monday Night will be the freezing temperatures expected at
game time. Right now, the feels like projection for kickoff
Monday is supposed to be nine degrees and that's a
death sentence for the Miami Dolphins and has been for
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almost a decade Miami. He hasn't won a game when
the temperature has been below forty degrees since twenty sixteen
against Buffalo, and their quarterback to a tongue of Iloa,
has a record of zero to five in his career
anytime the ten fips below forty degrees. Despite the weather
advantage Pittsburgh will have over Miami and their quarterback, Tua
also plays into the Steelers defense's hands in another key way.
Tua is currently tied for the league leading interceptions of
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this season, having been picked off fourteen times, which bodes
well for a Steelers defense that has eleven picks on
the season. The problem is you have to get Ta
to throw the ball to pick him off, and the
Dolphins have been hiding him during their winning streak, averaging
just about twenty one pass attempts per game in that
four game streak. Of course, the Dolphins feel no obligation
to pass the ball, seeing as they're averaging one hundred
and ninety two rushing yards per game during their winning streak,
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So it will be a major key for the Steelers
defense to stop that rushing attack, force Tua to air
it out, pick him off, and win the game. Steelers
and Dolphins kick off at eight fifteen Monday night at
Akashuer Stadium. I'm Tom Offerman with the Steelers Report.
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