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Speaker 1 (00:12):
WDVEE. It's for an I heeart radio station, guaranteed human.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
It is the DV morning show, your radio home of
the Pittsburgh Steelers, one on two point five DVE. Normally
a show like this would start off with a highlight
from yesterday's Steelers game. I can on this show, I
can only guess that the powers would be have decided
they're going to spare you from having to relive any

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of that to start your Monday morning after a holiday,
Because why get started by eating something that will make
you sick all day long?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You have leftovers for that, much like listening to.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
A highlight or low light from yesterday's loss to the
Buffalo bills from your Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
This is for your own good.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
We're just trying to spare you having to endure the
post traumatic Steelers disorder that is twenty six to seven
Buffalo bills over Mike Tomlin's Pittsburgh Steelers at home Akroser
Stadium after a holiday. People extended their Thanksgiving holiday to

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stay and see their beloved Steelers one time this year,
and they may never want to see them again. I
don't want to be all hyperbolic or anything. I like
Mike Tomlin. I think he's a good guy, and I
think he has good coaching qualities, but it kind of

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feels like the game has passed them by, not in
an old, daughtered kind of way, in a rocking chair,
going well, when we invented the forwood pass, that's what
we want to I mean, somewhere after he lost all
of the coaching that was so heralded around him, that

(02:15):
Dick Lebow type stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'm talking.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
As he turned to people that he was familiar with
and comfortable with, and the Keith Butlers and Randy Fiekner's
and even we'll go Todd Haley, Matt Canada.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
You know, like, how dare you? There is no way that.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Our defensive coordinator will get a job anywhere else in
the league. It's crazy to me that he has constantly
put out this mediocre product for this long and some
of us me included, because it wasn't until last year
where I started to think, like, you know, maybe this
isn't working. I love Mike Tomlind, but maybe this isn't working.

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It's really just banging your head against the wall year
after year. And I like the guy, I do, but
I can't see the Steelers' powers that be wanting to
look at this year after year. It's not that you
lost to the Bills, Josh Allen and company.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's not that you lost to the Bears.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Ben Johnson, upstart coach, a guy I would have loved
to have him and Mike Rable were the two guys
I would have loved to have built this organization's future around.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
It's not that you lose to those two teams, or that.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
You lose to the Bengals the first time you face
them three days after Flacco Donze Bengals Jersey for the
first time. It's how you lose every time and their
self inflicted wounds with a narrow path to victory that
he carves out because that's how he thinks you should win.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
And it all.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Relies on these big splash plays happening, and they've got
a avia every game. Well, even when you get the
big splash plays, it doesn't always mean that you're going
to be able.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
To capitalize on it.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I mean, miss Steelers had a couple of big plays.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Early gets a snap back to pass looking right on
a little cross and is it intercepted. It's picked off somehow,
some way for Hinton Eckles came away with.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
The interception, all right, didn't matter.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
That one her big uh Warren's touchdown.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
End of exciting plays in the game.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
That was the biggest.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Patrick Queen had a fumble recovery after that. I mean,
they had a couple of quick turnovers, the difference being
when the Bills got their quick turnovers in the second half.
They turned one into points immediately on that play that
knocked Aaron Rodgers out, and the other one the interception
from Mason. They I think it was like eight plays later,

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are in the end zone again, and all of a sudden,
the Steelers went from leading the game at halftime seven
to three to being down sixteen to seven.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
They had three yards total in the third quarter.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Arthur Smith lays another egg in the third quarters.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's just not fun to watch.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
That was my biggest complaint is that even in the past,
where maybe you get a second half where they're like
grinding it out at the minimum, at the at least,
it's not boring. Now it's the second half is also
it's dreadfully boring.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Nothing happens because nothing changes.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
They were very limited with what Aaron Rodgers could do.
He was in pistol just about the entire game, and
you know, there's only so much you can do back there.
And if you want to run the ball, they're gonna
be six yards deep in the end, behind the line
of scrimmage at that point, so you're already starting an
uphill battle.

Speaker 7 (06:07):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
You know, they should just be looking at it like, oh,
well you're running downhill from that formation.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I know.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
They didn't run the ball effectively at all. They didn't
throw the ball effectively at all. Total yardede yesterday one
hundred and sixty six for the Steelers, three hundred and.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Seventy two for the Bills.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Mike Tomlin said at halftime, Yeah, we got to run
the ball better, and then they went out and threw
right away and burped it up. Time of possession was laughable.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
I had to refresh my screen a bunch of times
because I kept thinking, like, well, when are they They've
got to update it.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I mean, it feels like this, but it can't be right.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
It was basically forty two to eighteen. Yeah, Bills had
the ball for forty two minutes yesterday. Cam Hayward was
pissed after the game. I mean, everyone's pissed. All the
Steelers fans were pissed. Mike Tomlin made Steelers fans boo, renegade.
Mike's gonna come in here and go well, no, no, no, no.
The players did okay, but it's clear when TJ. Watt

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is screaming at him on the sidelines that there's something
a little too antiquated about the defense of schromatics that
they employ week in and week out that is keeping
them from being competitive, because with all the money they
spent on those big name players, they absolutely stink on defense.
Just in offens It's like Arthur Smith is the offensive

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version of Mike Tomlin in that this is how we're
gonna do it, and if we do this perfect, there's
a narrow path to win. It's like a guy leading
you into war and he's like, all right, see that
rickety bridge over there.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
All right, we're gonna have to be very careful.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
But if we can get across that rickety bridge and
it doesn't fall down after we get all the troops
over there, we can get to the other side and
get back to camp and say, and people like, you know,
we could.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Just take the car and go the other way, sir, No, no, no, no,
this is how we do it.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
They're unnecessarily narrow minded. And Aaron Rodgers throwing Johnny Smith
under the bus after the game last night, let you
know where he is now.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
He deserved to get thrown under the bus.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I'm actually okay with what he said, which was basically like, yeah,
when I checked to a different route, you got to
run that route and I checked it inside, Johnny ran
outside and he's a pro, so he's gonna feel sick
about that. But don't think that didn't piss off Johnny Smith.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh hell yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
But I also heard Aaron kind of throwing that maybe
people aren't coming to film study either.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, come to film study, come to you know, meetings
on time. So it sounds like there's a little discord
in the ranks once again. But that also goes back
to coaching.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
You have to find, okay, what is then coming down
from the top.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
The players don't think they have to do that.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, well they got rid of George Picketts because they
thought he was a disciplined problem. And DK Metcalf takes
stupid penalties every game and he might be the one
that Aaron Rodgers is talking about. We don't even know,
Mike will come in and make some more sense of it. Yesterday,
you know, I really thought after that first half, like,
we can beat these guys, and the utter collapse that
was the second half of that game, because I thought

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they played terrible in the first half and they were
still winning and they were getting the ball to start
the second half, and I thought, well, they'll turn it
around now. And of course, because that's what they always do, right.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Sure they never do what actually they don't. Why do
I think they're gonna do that.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
Second game in a row that I had nothing to
say positive about a third quarter, like where I normally
take notes of, like, you know, the things I want
to remember that went well, went right?

Speaker 3 (09:38):
What went wrong?

Speaker 6 (09:39):
Second game in a row, I had nothing to try
about what went right in the third quarter and then
fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
I don't think I had anything either.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
I'm like, all right, well, bedtime time for some nightmares.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Pumpkin Pie is still good.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Mike Tomlin heard Steeler fans calling for him to be fired, and.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
He definitely heard it. First question, he dodged like he
didn't want to dress. At second question, he was like,
you know, I'm frustrated too.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's like, ah, frustration. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Patrick Queen was sniping back and forth with former Steeler
tree Essex on Twitter last night. It was a bad
look for the Steelers organization once again. I don't know
how you re up for this in the future. If
you're Art Rooney, how do you say, Yep, this is
how I want to do business. This is not a
matter of personnel. It's it's not I know they didn't

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have their left tackle, who they have no faith in
and don't like at all but the whole season yet,
but that should not have had any effect on what
yesterday was yet again an inability to use Jalen Warren
as effectively as they're capable of doing.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
They were just bad.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
They get beat on the line of scrimmage on both
sides of the ball. They got out tuffed. They're soft,
and that's why people were chanting fire Mike Tomlin in
Akroshuer Stadium, and that's why they booed renegade. They freaking
booed renegade bad. You have to piss off Steeler fans
to get them to boost sticks.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
You've got to blow it on fourth down at the flight.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I think with the worst ever, I think you have
to do that or third and eight check into a
candy gainwell run, I don't know. And then Aaron Rodgers
response is what if it would have made it? You
guys wouldn't have been saying that. It's like, yeah, correct
if some butts with candy and nuts, my aunt would
be my uncle.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
All right, Abby's got a news that day for you.
What's going on? We're talking about happy stuff? Okay, how
was your Thanksgiving? Was it lovely? So relaxing?

Speaker 6 (11:35):
That's all around the table, and we talked about how
much we loved new drugs.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Did you do that we actually did do?

Speaker 8 (11:40):
That?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Is that's so cute. I wish we'd uh, I knew
enough people at the table. I was out to say that,
oh cute. You didn't have to be like a name
tag a man like uh.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Mary, Yes, no, did you.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
You had to meet people at Thanksgiving?

Speaker 6 (11:56):
You had new new uh new significant others, new and
new people.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, that happens sometimes.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, we had Yeah, my sister brought her new uh
a boyfriend. And these are grown adults, folks, so it's
you know, it's it does sound weird.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
She was playing with their hair the whole time. Yeah,
now gave me his Pinda wear. He had a dog
that was very cool and yeah, so you know, but
just the stress of everything.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
You know, it always is like that mom gets drunk
and then who's going to take mom home?

Speaker 6 (12:29):
You know a lot of that, But I do like
when moms get drunk.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Man, I'm into it. Well, she just kept telling me
I look terrible.

Speaker 9 (12:35):
So that's a mom special though, Mom moral Scott, she
had the worst.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
I looked at her. Honey, you're not sleeping.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Oh you look day two she goes, well, you look
like you slept a little bit, but still not enough.
I'm like, okay, Mom, well let me know when I
conformed to your beauty standards. Great seeing you too.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
I can't crush ten while you're here, mom.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And then three I like, you know, Sunday scaries texts
for from her, you know, on a Friday.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Oh did I go too far? I hope you don't.
Oh geez, I didn't mean it like that. Oh, I'm
just worried my mom becames in the Irish Canadian. Well
I like that.

Speaker 8 (13:13):
You know.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
My mom tells me I look terrible when I think
I look good, and then tells me I look good
when I know I look terrible because she's trying to apologize. Yeah,
and then it doesn't work. Yeah, it's just a mom thing.
They think they can get away with it. Yeah, but
you know what I store it. I remember you. When

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it's time to pick a home, I'll remember.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
That's the way to do it.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Is always threatened them with their you know, the conditions
of their demise, like remember, I am the person in
charge of your exit.

Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, you know, when we, like I said, we all
had to we had a piece of paper in front
of us.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
My aunt hosted for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
We had a piece of paper in front of us
where we had to write one word for every person
that was at Thanksgiving, okay, and then you would go
around and then we'd start with each person. We'd be
like okay, Jane, and then everybody would have to say
the word that they had for that person.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I mean, like we had too many My in laws
extended family were that we had like twenty five people.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
So okay, we had fourteen Okay, a lot of.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
People, but you knew each other. There's like a boyfriend
of a person that I don't know.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
And no, we all knew each other very well. And
so and this is like my tight knit family. That's
adorable Mom's side of the family. But yes, I would
like to pat myself on the back for coming up
with the word assertive for my mother.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
That was the word you give her on Thanksgiving, Go
get her assertive.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
She got other words like.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
You put the ass in assertive, mom bold.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
She kept saying things like I was taking too long
and I said, carefuler.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I'm going to come up with two words for you.
Good for you, down man.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Speaking of Thanksgiving with news this hour brought to you
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Speaker 3 (15:05):
Cloudy and cold today. It's a high of thirty five.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
There's going to be snow on and off tonight, accumulation
of accoding to an inch, so watch.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Out for slappery roads.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
How is your fridge looking if it's still a game
of Tetris? Tonight's meal should probably be a Thanksgiving leftover buffet.
It's been four days since Thanksgiving, so technically today is
your last day to eat your leftovers before.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
They go bad. I'm going out with a bang.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh really, okay, I want to tell you you'd been
proud of me. My brother was like he's very much
like he is the Thanksgiving chef. So he's got these
amazing turkey breasts he's done and he's ripped them off
the carcass and everything, and he's like, gonna get rid
of the carcass.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'm like, there's a lot of meat on there, and
he's like, you want to do it.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
He's like, I've been working my ass off, dude, I
did the best, but if you want to go at it,
I'm like, okay. And then you know, you look at
you like, there's really not that much meat here, but
it looks like there's a ton.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
But if you really work at it, you can get it.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
So you know, turned that into carcass soup last night,
as I was calling it, and it was a turkey
white bean kale and had like chopped tomatoes in it, Like,
oh dude, this soup turned out. It was such a banger.
It was unbelievable. It was my favorite post Thanksgiving thing

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I've ever done with turkey. Even though I know a
lot of people do turkey soup. I've always thought it
was like turkey noodle, but this one, it gave it
a little more of an Italian flare. Yeah, and that
was like moving away from Thanksgiving a little bit on
the palette, which I hadn't done since Thursday because it's
all been turkey sandwiches.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Soeah, because I know, like.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
I have friends who are Italian. They're like, oh dude,
the first big Italian meal after Thanksgiving, it's like, you know,
you're getting your life support back.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Red sauce. It's like you're putting the mask back on.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
We had noki at Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
I always with red sauce.

Speaker 10 (17:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
Wow, that's the one thing we were talking about, like
the thing at Thanksgiving that should not be, like if
you had to take one thing away, and I remember,
uh we I don't think I got to. You know,
we're always talking and sometimes you know, things don't come
up because things go out of your head. But I
was thinking, I'm like, I know my family's gonna have

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something Italian. It's either stuff shells or knock you or something.
And we forgot.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
To take it out of the oven.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
That's almost just thinking food there was and it's always there.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
But like, you know, so I had that to bring home.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
My My big like meal was I took a thing
a turkey and a green bean like kind of castlerole thingy,
but not not too like saturated or anything. And I
remixed it with some better than bollion sauce, all right,
And I made that with like a new fresh thing
of rice.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
And I made like a good like.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Semi healthy bowl.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
Whatever I gotten rid of, like a good set of
leftovers I still have, like all like the egregious like
comfort pillowy.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Side I have.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I have, Yeah, I have those two. So what do
they say about the timing on all that today is
the last day?

Speaker 6 (18:17):
Okay, so it does say According to the USDA, turkey stuffing, potatoes,
sweet potatoes, green beans, gravy, and pumpkin pie can all
be stored in the fridge for three to four days
if you don't want to waste the food you have.
Most leftovers can last a few months in the freezer.
I don't know, guys, I don't just eat it.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know. If you have too much turkey, freeze
it well, yeah, I mean no.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
And in your case too, if you're gonna like soup
it up later too, because.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I don't know more carcass soup.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
There's one Thanksgiving staple that will will survive in the
fridge a little longer, though, cranberry sauce.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I was watching my mom eat that yesterday. I like
cranberry sauce, but my sister ruined it this year. She's like,
I'll make it.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
I make it really good, and then she had like
tons of orange zest in it or something.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
I don't know. I feel like I was eating an
orange peel. No too much. He's like, do you like it?
I'm like, pru no shade, but that's a little extra.
I totally agree. I'm like, I want cranberry.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't want to feel like I'm eating a rind
out of the top of the garbage. I'm not sally wigging.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
All the canned stuff can last up to two weeks
in the fridge, so just be careful, don't push anything
with the meat and the dairy products, which is basically
everything unless you're vegan, which you know you probably didn't
have any of the meat anyway, so be careful and
went in doubt.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Throw it out.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
He my brother did three stuffings this year, which was
down one and he did just the regular old you know,
normal normal sized nipples, normal stuff, normal size, and then
he did He does this every year, and it's it's
as easy as it sounds to just add to regular
stuffing sausage and pepper stuffing. It tastes like a sausage

(20:00):
in pepper sub that sounds so good. So and he
uses hot turkey sausage in that.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
I would destroy that. It's so good.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
He used to do a shrimp pettufe, but there's too
many shrimp allergies.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Now you mentioned that.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
I think I thought you said there was like some
lobster in it or something.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
It was shrimp. Oh that also, I would it really
really good.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
And then he did a mushroom one with and he
put a bunch of morales in it.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
This year, it's just stupid. It was so good. No
Wonder stressed. Yeah, he was well, he was stressed. He
had a lot going on.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
He was trying to you know, every burner was going
you know what I mean, like my my whole thing
is like, oh, I'll take care of Wednesday night dinner.
Just like try to get one burner on a Wednesday
night when he's prepping.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
It ain't happening.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
I can't imagine.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
I came with my root vegetables like ready to go
in the crock pot, like I timed it so that
they were warm enough. I had the crockpot already on
warm so that they would like kind of shup, like
ready to go.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
It can just like plug it in or whatever.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
But I remember in past years like and you just
never ever do it, Like when you show up to
somebody's house for Thanksgiving and go, can I get a
little oven space?

Speaker 3 (21:11):
It's like do you walk like.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Or you couldn't exactly, Yes, you have to have that pot.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
You need to come prepared, self contained.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
That is, somebody showed up this year and wanted a
little oven space and it was for something that nobody
was going to eat. And you know, it was one
of those progredging like sure, won don't you uh shoot,
you can do open it up.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
To bang my wife exactly.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh you want some oven space? Well who left for you?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
It was very tense, you know what it was the
weather because we got destroyed up in the ear the lake.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
The sea was angry, my.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Friend, just like Las fans forty mile an hour winds
that looked like that.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, So it was. It was brutal up there.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
And they got a few inches of snow, but nothing
like last year when the entire he shut down with
a thirty inch snowstorm that dropped him the course of
about seven hours. Remember I barely got out of there.
Next I did my record release on the Friday of
Thanksgiving weekend last year. I do remember that, and I
barely got out of there. Then this time it wasn't
so bad.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
But oh, your record's a year old.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
The record is a year old, that's right. And today
is my DVE anniversary.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
What a fun little banner hanging day for you, mister Balmant.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
I want to thank Abby, who, by the way, remembered
today was my DVE anniversary. On this day in nineteen
ninety nine, I started on the morning show while Paulson
was still here as a matter of fact, and because
he wasn't leaving until the end of December, and I

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had to pretend I was an intern until they announced
it the week before Christmas. Wow, and everybody was just like,
who's this idiot? And then they were treating me like
an intern the whole time. And then when it was
announced that I was actually taking the job from Scott,
one of the people on staff goes, man, I would
hate to be.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
You, and I was like, huh.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
And then one of the people on the show said
it's not gonna last. I'm like, what did I sign
up for anyways? Fool them all? So Abby says, I
come it this morning and there's a lovely note waiting
for me, Happy twenty sixth anniversary DV aniversary because she
overheard me talking about it was somebody a week ago
and remembered, of course, and clocked it and got me

(23:31):
a little gift.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
I turn over the.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Note and it is a bumper sticker with a picture
of Gordon Lightfoot playing the guitar, and it says, stop honking,
I'm crying to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by
Gordon Lightfoot. We should put a Gordon Lightfoot together about
the wreck that is the Steelers. Matter of fact, we'll

(23:56):
have to do that for tomorrow, because good Lord, what
has happened? And Ben's Jerry Doulac rob king mister Wednesday
on a Monday, Jeff Conko will be joining us here
shortly live from the Donz applying ache on things yesterday,
because usually he comes in and tells me what he
thinks I got wrong. In the opening salvo here as
we recount twenty three seven Steelers lose to the Bills yesterday.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Sports is Up brought to you by Bridgeville I'm sorry
twenty six seven. I forgot about that last field goal.

Speaker 11 (24:26):
After another awful performance and another awful result, Aaron Rodgers
found a way to make it sound and seem even
worse when asked how he and his would be pass
catchers could get better in the way of Bill's twenty
six Steelers seven.

Speaker 12 (24:42):
When there's film sessions, everybody shows up. And when I
checked through a route, you do the right route, you know,
like John and I just were on same page. I
checked to his inbreaker and he ran outbreaker. You know,

(25:02):
I'm Johonnah's a true professionals. I'm sure he's you know,
he's sick, sick about that. But you know, I threw
all I thought was going to get it by the
wind and he was four yards over Roman, so I
got to make that throw. But you know, we have
our meetings every week, we have other opportunities outside of

(25:24):
the facility and look forward to seeing all the boys there.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
So my take on that was the person who isn't
going must be John Hu because he felt comfortable using
his name. Now, if it isn't, we'ren't even worse shape,
because that means there's one more guy who doesn't know
what's going on.

Speaker 11 (25:44):
Yeah, I was trying to figure out if he was
talking about during the workday stuff or extra stuff outside
of the facility. Well that and I'm guessing it's the ladder.
But I'm not sure that they're not going above Mionta.
I mean, if guy aren't showing up from nine to five,
so to speak, Yeah, you know, that's a huge issue.

(26:07):
If it's something, hey, let's get together tonight and go
over some stuff and somebody doesn't show, that's maybe an
indication somebody's not willing to go.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
The extra mile.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
I mean, I can't imagine DK's really happy right now,
and he's certainly acting out constantly week and the week
out on the field. I mean, he's got to be
leading the team in penalties right now, right.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, that's kind of who he is.

Speaker 11 (26:28):
The sort of knew that coming in seven points for
the Steelers, their fewest since Week four, twenty twenty three
at Houston when they got six that was on the
way to Matt Canada's last stand. That's where they are offensively,
and the biggest issue, just ahead of not being able

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to run the ball against a horrifically bad run defense,
was deciding that Yeah, Aaron Rodgers can play, but he
can't take a snap on the side. I couldn't, so
he's going to be in shotgun all day. That that
is as confounding and a decision is the one they
made in uh Los Angeles against the Chargers when Siamala
couldn't play. So they said, well, let's play Anders Peede

(27:14):
at guard and keep Spencer Anderson eligible to be the
extra tight end, but we'll also play him at guard,
and we have to make those guys come in and
out because Anderson can't go from extra tight end back
to guard, so he's got to come out for a
play and then we'll go back into guard after play.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
And that was just a mess.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
The coaching is abysmal right now. The decision making is
an absolute disaster.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
It was yesterday. You know what. That's beating yourself before
you get started. Well, how about the fourth and two call?

Speaker 9 (27:50):
Yeah, well, you know you could have got back into
the game.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
There you're bagging by a threat, but you score a
touchdown on a two point version.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
You're one of your touchdown version away. Right.

Speaker 11 (28:03):
I don't know they you know, they'd run the ball
ineffectively all day and they passed it to get down there,
and they decided to put it in Kenny Gagwell's hands instead.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Of Rogers and the aline spencer. Anderson out as a
slot receiver on that play. You know, he's like out
off the right tackle.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I don't know, he's a diversion of what the hell
he was there all he motioned.

Speaker 11 (28:25):
The bigger issue with it to me was you had
Johnny Smith was an inside tight end and mount Washington
was an outside tight end. Uh, And they relied on
Johnny Smith to make a block and.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Mount Washington was wide open for He's like one on
one with a guy who's not going to tackle all that.

Speaker 11 (28:42):
Or if you're determined to run it, maybe he should
be blocking.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, I don't understand a lot of the decision making yesterday.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
It was confounding.

Speaker 11 (28:53):
On the defensive side. They gave up two hundred and
forty nine rushing yards. Nowuffo did have the number one
rushing team in the NFL, but Buffalo, like Pittsburgh, has
really no receivers that scare anybody. And Buffalo had no
starting offensive tackles available. And you knew Buffalo wasn't really
going to throw the ball much, and it didn't and

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the Steelers still gave up two hundred and forty nine
nursing yards, which were the most by a road team
in Pittsburgh since Week two, nineteen seventy five, when the
Buffalo Bills gained three ten two hundred and twenty seven
of those by a guy named O. J.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Simpson.

Speaker 13 (29:34):
T J.

Speaker 11 (29:35):
Watt had a hard time putting that into context.

Speaker 10 (29:40):
I mean, I've never seen a team run the same
play as much as they ran tonight, and now as
much success as they had.

Speaker 14 (29:47):
I mean, I'm a lout of words for it.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Rumo kept saying, it is thick. They're running it again.

Speaker 11 (29:52):
I thought it was three or four plays, and Charlie
agreed with me on the post game three or four runs,
that's all they did.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Apparently it was less than that.

Speaker 11 (29:59):
You know, to change the formation, yeah, run, change the personnel,
run the same play. Yeah, that's not schematics. You know
what's coming and you can't stop it.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, maybe having a little help up there instead of
twenty yards offull on of scrimmage. I mean, you know,
you know, stop it. They can't, Mike, they can't and
it here's the really confounding part.

Speaker 11 (30:30):
They did a great job against the Bears, who were
the number two rushing team in the league, on the
road in Chicago, stopping the run. They had the players
to do it, they had the schematics to do it.
Did you see what the Bears did to Philly?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (30:42):
Running the ball just ran right through them. So, okay,
that was pretty good. They stopped Jonathan Taylor, who is
maybe the best back in the league.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
That's pretty good. How do you go from that to
what we saw.

Speaker 11 (30:52):
Yesterday or Austin? I don't know what else to tell you.
I don't have an answer for that, because.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
There are time.

Speaker 11 (31:01):
To me, there are times when the players are fine,
and there are times when the schematics are fine, and
there are times like yesterday where they're just off the
charts awful.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Well, Derek Harmon not being there certainly hurt them, no question, but.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
He won't be that bad. Can't be one guy.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
We're gonna have Tim Benz join the fray when we
come back. Abby, you'll have your news at the top.

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Speaker 2 (32:52):
They booed Renegade, they booed Rent. No cheering, they're booing
Rand good Lord after the stop for yes, good good
call there. Well, that's what I'm saying. That was renegade.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
It was just got stuff. The game's over. Yeah, you
got to read the room on that one.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Tim Benz joining us right now, brought to you by
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Tim Ben's Benz Uh, I never heard Renegade get booed before,
but I also agreed with the booing. I guess the
first thing I want to ask you about is do
you think the Steelers made a mistake putting Aaron Rodgers
behind center with that much limited ability with the cast

(33:36):
on the left hand and being unable to get under center.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Hold on one second, now, you're good.

Speaker 15 (33:45):
Well, based on how poor Mason Rudolph was when he
got in there, I guess no, because you're right.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
By the way.

Speaker 15 (33:53):
I want to hear Michelle Michaels open up the Electric
Lunch today by playing Renegade and then just playing a soundtrack.

Speaker 13 (34:00):
Of people booing underneath it. I think that would be
poetic justice to what we heard yesterday.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
It was it was a dark day yesterday, a dark,
dark day.

Speaker 15 (34:11):
And the fire Tomlin Chance, where were you in the
stadium range?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I actually didn't go yesterday. I got back from Thanksgiving
vacation a little late and watched. I watched it from
my couch and Jacob, you said you heard those the
booing pretty soundly in your section.

Speaker 8 (34:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I was talking about it with Abby before we went
on air, and I said the same thing that you did.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
I said, read the room.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, I mean, like Mike said, it was after that
fourth down stop that could they could have governed an offense.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
No one was in a cheerful mood. No I was.

Speaker 15 (34:43):
I was in the line to get into the locker
room afterwards, and there was a couple of bills personnel
trickling down from the press box and one of the
I don't have no idea who it was, but one
of the members of the Bill's PERSONNELA is walking behind us,
said to another guy.

Speaker 8 (34:59):
It gave me chills when they started to boo renegade.

Speaker 15 (35:04):
So like the sideline for the Bills obviously got a
jolt out, as if they needed one based on the
way the Steelers are performing, But they got a jolt
out of the fact that.

Speaker 13 (35:14):
The crowd had turned ugly against their own team yesterday.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Well, I think we all understand why. I mean, where
do you lay the first line of culpability?

Speaker 15 (35:26):
Well, this is a gross oversimplification, but I'll use it anyway.
I think the players on defense deserve blame for how
they played. I think the players on offense were victims
of how poorly they were coached. And that's letting the
offensive players off the hook too much. I get it
they stunk too, but it just jumps out at me

(35:48):
how bad the players are on defense. For the way
you guys talked about it in the six thirty Sports cast,
the quotes from TJ.

Speaker 13 (35:56):
Watt, the quotes from Peyton Wilson.

Speaker 15 (35:59):
You know, I asked Peyton Wilson, were they doing anything
different in the run game, because I.

Speaker 13 (36:03):
Know you guys are preparing for all week, And he
said no, they.

Speaker 15 (36:06):
Every run that popped, the coaches told us about, the
coach has warned us about. We worked against it all week,
and yet it still happened.

Speaker 8 (36:15):
So to me, that's on the players.

Speaker 15 (36:18):
Running on third and seven, running on fourth and to
some of the things they tried to do on offense,
or some of the things they.

Speaker 13 (36:26):
Avoided trying to do on offense.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
That was more scheme.

Speaker 15 (36:30):
But you know, then again, Mason didn't make throws, Rogers
didn't make throws, and the guys upfront didn't block en up.

Speaker 13 (36:36):
So it was a.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Disaster all It was a disaster all around. I was
hoping Mason would be the spark they needed. He immediately
threw one at DK's feet and then of course the
interception that wasn't good.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Iunt Washington.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
It's hard to do, no question, but I thought that
it would have been nice if they would have seen
Aaron Rodgers at practice this week, and then thought, you know,
maybe we should run Mason with it, just a small
select package with package with the ones right now, so
we can change it up if Aaron doesn't end up
finishing this game, because you know, you had the advantage

(37:13):
of having a guy with two good risks coming in there.
But you'd only game plan for the guy with one
bad one, so you can still only trot out the
same stuff that wasn't working.

Speaker 15 (37:24):
Well, the funny thing is, like I don't remember this
wave of complaints or concerns covering Ben Roethlisberger for all
those years where they could only do one thing that
they game plan for. I seem to remember a chunk
of about nineteen years there where if something wasn't working,

(37:44):
they pivoted to something else. And you know, whether it's
been Rogers or Fields, or Kenny Pickett or Mitch Trubisky
or Russell Wilson, by the way, is going to the
Hall of Fame too. Ever, since Ben has left, they've
acted like they can only do one thing, one thing,
and one thing only going into any game.

Speaker 8 (38:07):
And should that not work, oh well we lose, you know,
like that.

Speaker 15 (38:12):
They should be more malleable than that, shouldn't they?

Speaker 3 (38:16):
I mean, yes, on both sides of the ball. Yeah,
well I think guess said they weren't because of the
hand thing.

Speaker 8 (38:22):
Okay, well then he shouldn't be playing right.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
For two series one, series three plays, I'm three plays.

Speaker 15 (38:32):
If they can't see then how limiting their limited playbook
is because of Rogers being in there, they have to
admit that they've made a mistake and take him out there.

Speaker 8 (38:40):
But God forbid that they ever.

Speaker 13 (38:42):
Admit that they make a mistake.

Speaker 15 (38:43):
I mean, like if I can't remember how many plays
into the game it was, but it wasn't many.

Speaker 13 (38:48):
It might have been the second series.

Speaker 15 (38:49):
But when they had that play where they wanted to
run right and they felt like the easiest way to
do that was for Rogers to kind of turn around
and throw it backwards instead of pitching or handing off
with his left hand, Like that had to be an
indication of Okay, we're going so far down the well
to protect against this, then he shouldn't be playing.

Speaker 8 (39:10):
You know, you get the report that comes out.

Speaker 15 (39:12):
And by the way, I had somebody else corroborate that
Ian Rappaport report about the one really bad break and
then the two other little breaks. Somebody else told me
that same thing right before kickoffs. And if it's that bad,
then just say he's injured, you know, Like it's not
as if this offense is so advanced that the Bills.

Speaker 8 (39:33):
Were been quaking in their boots if they knew, oh
my god.

Speaker 13 (39:35):
We're preparing for Aaron Rodgers instead of.

Speaker 8 (39:37):
Mason Rudolph, Like I didn't think the game plan.

Speaker 15 (39:40):
Itself looked all that vastly different between the two weeks.

Speaker 13 (39:43):
Am I wrong on that?

Speaker 8 (39:45):
That?

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Could? They weren't on the field long enough for me
to tell what the hell was.

Speaker 11 (39:50):
That's second second series Rogers as a one on one
the Roman Wilson he missed it, and he missed it bad,
and then he said, oh, I was he worried about
the win.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Like I'm sorry he got to hit that.

Speaker 11 (40:03):
I watched Carolina in the Rams yesterday and Carolina had
two fourth and shorts.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
And went one on one deep on both of them
town and score touchdowns, Like you gotta play Pryce Young
threw a perfect ball.

Speaker 11 (40:15):
Big boy football, and if you can't, you lose, and
they can't break.

Speaker 15 (40:19):
Now Rogers is really, really good, and I've started to
watch him when things go wrong on the field, Like
he's great in the locker room and saying, you.

Speaker 13 (40:28):
Know, I got to make that throw. I gotta do better.

Speaker 15 (40:30):
But he's also real good at pointing out what everybody
else doesn't do, and like the best play of the
game might have been that crazy one handy catch that
Gadewell made and stayed in his ride and picked up
seventeen yards. But even on that play, I watched Rogers afterwards,
and when he threw it, he was like pointing at
the turf or looking it look like he slipped or

(40:51):
something on the delivery.

Speaker 8 (40:53):
There's always something.

Speaker 13 (40:54):
It's always somebody else.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
He's thrown that ball to him all year. I don't
understand it.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
He has been throwing that go get them ball on
the checkdown non stop.

Speaker 15 (41:05):
And that was that was almost as blatantly bad as
the Rogers skipped to DK.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
It's just that.

Speaker 8 (41:10):
Gainwell bailed him out.

Speaker 15 (41:13):
Now, he couldn't bail him out twice when they decided
to run on pivoting situations. Once on third and seven, sorry,
third and eight he got seven, and then on the
fourth and two, and then Rogers got all snippy in
the post game when someone had the temerity to ask
him about it.

Speaker 13 (41:29):
Well, I mean, I think that's a.

Speaker 15 (41:30):
Very worth So he's mad that the question was asked
because Gainwell didn't get an extra yard.

Speaker 8 (41:35):
You know why I didn't get an extra.

Speaker 15 (41:36):
Yard, Aaron, Because running on third and eight is pretty
far right. That's why I mean, it's a legit question,
and he wants to grouse and grumble at it.

Speaker 16 (41:45):
You know.

Speaker 8 (41:46):
I guess it's hard for.

Speaker 15 (41:47):
Me to say I'm over him because I was never
really on board with him, But I gave it some
latitude because they were playing well early and I was
willing to see how far down it could go into
the season. And I guess I have my answer. You know,
somewhere around Thanksgiving, it just fell off the rails.

Speaker 11 (42:02):
I mean, they hit a low yesterday that we haven't
seen since Kenny Picking in mac Canada.

Speaker 8 (42:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (42:09):
I mean, I never thought it would get to the
point where we longed for Matt Canada.

Speaker 13 (42:13):
And maybe I'm still not. I'm feeling similar. I'm feeling
similar to what it was.

Speaker 8 (42:17):
Uh, there's just no answers.

Speaker 13 (42:19):
You know.

Speaker 15 (42:19):
Somebody asked me once, uh And when I say once,
like last week after the Chicago game, what's really the
difference between Arthur Smith and Matt Canada? And I said,
better World War Two analogies, And that's basically about it.
He's got he's got he's got pithier sound bites, and
he's better at, you know, engaging us and talking about

(42:40):
why he's doing what he's doing. But the results are
painfully similar. And that's what this team is. They are painfully,
painfully average in a league that's built to be average,
and they are constantly positioned as being something better and
something above that they are not.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
They are the definition.

Speaker 13 (43:01):
Of NFL mediocrety right now.

Speaker 15 (43:02):
A team that can, like you said, Mike and the
previous sports cast, they can hold the second best rush
team in football to ninety nine yards and then the
go up against the best rush team in football and give.

Speaker 13 (43:13):
Up two forty nine at home.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
When you found out when you found out their tackles
weren't playing this week, that's when every Steeler fan knew,
while we're in trouble, which were in trouble, Yeah, we
can't take advantage of this.

Speaker 15 (43:27):
That's especially true for the pass rush because I'm at
the point now when I hear that the other team
has this guy out and that guy out along the
offensive line, that that offensive tackle stinks, and boy Tech
is gonna eat with three sacks this week, I know
it's going to go exactly the opposite. Because the myth
of what the Steelers pass rush is still spooks opposing

(43:47):
team offensive coordinators to just leave everybody in They Chip
the double, and Watt has no prayer of getting home.
He can't make the play himself, and nobody else can
make a play on the other side often enough.

Speaker 8 (43:57):
I mean, like, I get it.

Speaker 15 (43:59):
They only threw ball twenty three times, but they went
from eight sacks against to none.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Come on, well they missed four.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Yeah, he's a hard guy to bring down. They didn't
get a to grow fair enough.

Speaker 8 (44:10):
Tim.

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Speaker 3 (44:26):
Here's Tom Opperman.

Speaker 18 (44:28):
The Steelers were blown out by the Bill Sunday at
Akrostro Stadium twenty six to seven, in a game where
they only gained one hundred and sixty six yards of
total offense and lost the time of possession battle to
Buffalo forty one minutes and fifty nine seconds to eighteen
oh one. Pittsburgh actually had the lead coming out of
halftime seven to three and started the second half of
the game with the ball. From the very first play
of their possession, Bill's addresher Joey Bosa demolished Aaron Rodgers,

(44:51):
knocking the ball loose and Bill's corner Christian Benfort scooped
it up for the touchdown to give the Bills the lead,
and it all snowball downhill from there for the Steelers.
The factor in the Bill's success Sunday was their rushing offense,
which was the best in the league heading into the game,
and it showed.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Buffalo gashed the Steelers for a total of two.

Speaker 18 (45:07):
Hundred and forty nine yards on the ground and an
average of four point nine yards per carry. Leading the
way was running back James Cook, who had his league
leading seven to one hundred yard rushing performance on the
season as he ran for one hundred and forty four
yards on thirty two carries against the Steelers, and the
Bills improved to six to one on the year in
the games that Cook eclipsed the one hundred yards on
the ground. The Steelers now try to bounce back from

(45:28):
two straight losses as they traveled to Baltimore to take
on the six and six Ravens for control of the
AFC North.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
I'm Tom Offerman with the Steelers report at FNB.

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Speaker 4 (45:55):
Play action pass dancing out through his right in trouble
and hit from behind by Boza. Always out, it is
scooped up, It is run in for a Buffalo Bills
touchdown Christian Benford scooped it up, and one play into
the second half, the Bills have taken the league.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
The Steelers have come out in the second half with
the ball.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Six times this year.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
They have done nothing four times, run the ball, one interception,
one fumble return for a touchdown. They are the worst
third quarter team in the league, maybe in the history
of the sport.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
I can't imagine that anybody's ever been worse.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Mister Wednesday, Jeff Conkle joining us on the DV morning
show on a Monday here, and you were.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
At the game? Were you even back in your seat
for that play?

Speaker 19 (46:52):
I was, And I've never so like I've that crowd
was hyped up, like going into the game, like there
is palpable good good high Holiday crowd holiday crowd four
to twenty five games a fun one because it's not
so late that it's like making people stressed out having
to go to work the next day, right, but also

(47:14):
just enough nighttime that you can kind of get your
little your little night time on, you know, your your
little gremlin, your inner gremlin comes out.

Speaker 8 (47:20):
Well.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
The build up of tailgating is much easier. You don't
have to get there at nine am to get three
hours in. You can get there at you know, one
o'clock and have a three hour pre game.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yeah, and there's.

Speaker 19 (47:30):
Tons of chanting on the way into the stadium and
every like that. So I went with my neighbor Frank,
and I was like, I was like, this is gonna
be a good game. This crowd is is hyped up.
And for the most part, it was a pretty good game.
I mean, they had Lynn Swan come out.

Speaker 9 (47:44):
Wave the Terrible towel and everything like that that got
the crowd pretty hyped up. Retreating into halftime, and then
I don't I it was a blur, like I don't
even know what exactly happened.

Speaker 19 (47:56):
I just looked back up and it was it was like,
what was score? Was it twenty four to seven at
the end of half, at the end of at the end.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Of the third quarter, it was.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
No, it was twenty three yeah six at the end.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Of the well, no, they it was the.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
A minute into the fourth quarter they scored to make
it twenty three seven. Twenty three seven, that's that's so,
there was fourteen minutes left in the game and they
were down twenty three seven. It was It was a
that third quarter might go down in history as one
of the suckiest sucks to ever suck three yards rushing.

Speaker 19 (48:32):
It was atrocious. And that period offense that really threw
the Mason pick. Like when Mason came in, there was
like a little bit of life. It was like, Okay,
here's our real guy. And then immediately throw into triple
coverage toe tap interception and the crowd was done.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Well you would think it.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
You know, he comes in the game, you put him
under center, his wrists are fine. But they hadn't prepped
for that this week. So you can't do anything that
you hadn't prepped for, which is we prep for the
one armed quarterback, and we're gonna make our two armed
quarterback one armed.

Speaker 19 (49:04):
I don't understand, like maybe Mike will be able to
illuminate me on this one. But the whole under center thing, Okay,
let's just say you didn't practice that, hasn't Isn't he
a pro NFL quarterback?

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I think he can figure it out. Oh that's what
Ben's was just talking about. It's like when it like
back in the day with Ben, you know, you could
have game planned all week long and if it wasn't
working by the end of the first half, you just
went back to like whatever slinging it.

Speaker 19 (49:28):
But it was you know, the crowds I've noticed this
year have been wildly schizophrenic, and there will be like
there there right before the Mason Rudolph pass, we had
run it or something like that, and this guy goes.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
Let Mason throw it, for God's sakes.

Speaker 9 (49:42):
The next play he throws it in a triple coverage
and he's like.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Why aren't we running the ball?

Speaker 9 (49:48):
So it's just when you're not happy, you're not you
don't make sense, and that Steelers crowd was not making sense.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Nothing about that game was making sense.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
When you're playing a bad run defense like the Bills,
and you have capable backs like the Steelers do, and
you put in a quarterback who's unable to utilize all
the benefits of a good running game, i e. He's
got to be in a shotgun or pistol formation the
entire game, and he's handing off with not always handing
off with the you know, the hand you should be

(50:18):
handing off with. You're putting yourself at a disadvantage, Like
he should never have played this game. He's not so
good that Mason is that much of a drop up.
You took away the one thing that could beat the
Bills by putting Aaron Rodgers in there. You said he's
gonna pass us to a win when the key to
victory was running the damn ball.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
I don't though.

Speaker 19 (50:40):
They showed Aaron Rodgers on the sideline after he at
his nose busted, and he looked like he had done twelve,
Like he looked like the crowd felt like really yeah,
he was like the picture of Dorian Gray somehow like that.
He just like all the energy of of the of
the crowd just fed into what he looked like in
the end of the game.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Just rough.

Speaker 6 (51:00):
I posted a picture of the Black Knight from Monty Python,
and I was like, I don't know, guys, I feel
like Aaron Rodgers can do it.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
It's just like I'll just bite you to death. It's
like take him out. This is stupid.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Oh imagine what kind of natural remedies he's put on
that nose last night. They're like it's broken. We have
to said. He's like, no, you don't. I'm gonna take
two coconuts and I'm gonna pound them together. I'll be
in quiet prayer.

Speaker 19 (51:21):
Help me hold this smoldering pine cone to my solar plexus.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Steelers are in bad shape. It's bad. I'm glad because
it's terrible. Twenty six to seven. They lose.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
They let Buffalo hold the ball for forty two minutes
of that game. That was rough to forty two to eighteen.

Speaker 19 (51:37):
It was funny because there was a decent amount of
Buffalo people at the game, and as the game wore on,
especially after the third quarter, the ratio of blue to
gold in the stands was absolutely palpable.

Speaker 9 (51:52):
We were losing a lot of ranks toward toward the end.
They're very, very bad.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
It's like Ken ken Burns could have done a documentary.

Speaker 9 (51:58):
Yeah, that was That was Lexington and Concord and we
were at the bridge just getting slaughtered.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
The Blue Shirts stayed.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
That's the second time we got chased out of our
stadium this year. A bad look for the Steelers. The
fire Mike Tomlin chance. You knew this was gonna happen.
We knew they were headed in this direction after the
fire Matt Canada year. I never liked that stuff. I
think that stuff looks bad on a fan base. And

(52:25):
the reason I think then, I thought this was Matt
Canada too, and I'd said it all along. I didn't
like that they were crossing the streams and doing it
at Penguins games either. The reason I don't like it
is it's like airing your dirty laundry, you know what
I mean. It just makes you look like even more
of a slappy organization when the fans are just constantly

(52:46):
just screaming. Now, I'm not saying there's no justification for it,
and I do think that unless there's a miraculous turnaround
right now for Mike Tomlin, I don't know how the
Steelers sign up for more of this and let this
guy control this coming draft in your future destiny again
when they've only showed they have no idea how to
build a team with Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
I don't know that I can handle this this year, though.

Speaker 19 (53:08):
Let's just say something happened, Like I'm a Penn State alum,
all the Penn State fans. The situation between James Franklin
and Mike Tomlin is so similar. Is that he couldn't
just put it over the edge, and that seems like
sort of the same.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Type of criticis so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
I think James Franklin has a much bigger argument for
not being fired than Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 19 (53:30):
But the whole point of it is is that as
a fan base, you can get rabid with subpar results.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
And then when I.

Speaker 9 (53:38):
Thought it was funny, Penn State fans are like, we
need to fire James Franklin. And then they're like, all right,
we fired James Franklin, Like what's do that for?

Speaker 8 (53:45):
God?

Speaker 19 (53:45):
Like, you know, like, so now we're a drift, we
have no head coach, all of our commits are fleeing,
and so now you're staring into the chasm of oh God,
now we really have nothing.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
So but you know, the it's different in college football though,
because then you're seeing what's going on with Kiffin right now.
Getting rid of James Franklin that early in the season. Initially,
I was like, wow, I can't believe they gased him
with this much left in the season. But because they
did that, they made him available for a job opening immediately,
which quickly put him in the running to land a

(54:17):
place and reduce the amount of money that the university
was gonna have to pay him.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
So that went from what fifty million to nine million.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Yeah, that's a huge difference for the for the you know,
nil monies that are out there for respective universities, So
I get why they did that.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
In the pros it's different.

Speaker 9 (54:34):
My point though, is that you don't know what you
got till it's gone, and I that's sort of like stop,
do you know syndrome, the kind of the thing like
you fall in love with your captor, Like, maybe that's
a little bit going on too, but there always is.

Speaker 19 (54:48):
You know, Hey, you know, maybe winning record is good
is good enough for some people. We're always in the mix,
but you don't like Penn States could be could be
Nebraska next year and be completely irrelevant. No, that's true,
and Steelers could fall through the same to the same function.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
They follow up on this they got too much money
at Penn State to let that happen.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
But yeah, no, it's starting to feel like we're in
the Symbionese Liberation arm Army or whatever Patty Hurst was in.
Because if you're making arguments that Mike Tomlin should be
given more of a chance to keep doing this, I
think you're just a little too far on the inside.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
And I may have been there for a long time.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Last year was the first year where I started to go,
I don't think he's gonna do it. I remained a
fan for a long time, and looking at what they
have achieved or what they have failed to achieve this
year again, it's like I said in the six o'clock hour,
it's not that they lost to the Bills, Abbey, It's
not that they lost to the Bears or to the
Bengals three days after Flacco put on a Bengal jersey.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
It's how they do it.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
There's an inept quality to this team week in and
week out that.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
You cannot abide if you are ownership.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
In today's NFL, the game moves much quicker than it
used to, and what used to.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
Be a an.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Asset to say, like, oh, well, we haven't changed coaches
since the moon landing. Well that's great, but guess who
has you know, the Eagles and they've won two super
bowl since then.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
You know this is he's the Andy Reid guy. I
keep saying it.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Whether or not he gets to he's gonna go to
the point win the Super Bowl his four and twelve season.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Well, maybe I don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
I kind of think the game is passing Mike Tomlin
by and he's playing a very antiquated version of the NFL.
He's playing a game that doesn't exist anymore, and he's
only bringing in coaches who know that there is no
Ben Johnson type of guy coming in here to say like,
this is how we do it, that this is how
we down Tomlin not happening.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
The biggest asset that we've always seen in Mike Tomlin
and we saw this so well in Hard Knocks when
we were featuring that in the AFC North series, is
that he motivates players the way that he speaks to
players like he's a player's coach. But at this point
when you're seeing no changes over and over again and again,

(57:09):
second half just dive bombing every game, and you're seeing
defensive players that don't win their assignments.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
You're seeing zero chemistry.

Speaker 6 (57:16):
Offensively, how are you speaking to your players when postgame you're.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Hearing that people maybe aren't going to film study.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
You know, you're okay, So now you're not connecting to
the players.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
So now you've lost them.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
You've lost your biggest asset as a coach. So now
what do you do? Right? What is your function? But
my whole thing is like, all right, obviously unfunctioned, capable,
go function yourself?

Speaker 19 (57:41):
What team do you trust in the AFC? Though, Like,
you know, if we plant ourselves in Indianapolis and listen
to their sports talk radio, are they not saying the
same things as Baltimore not saying this is Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Indianapolis doesn't say the same. I mean, there's this, but
do you trust them like they could They could lose
it all.

Speaker 9 (57:56):
I mean, So what I'm saying is like the wild
inconsistencies seem to be running rampant, specifically in the AFC,
maybe with the exception of the Patriots or maybe.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
The nobody's been given this long And that's the difference
is that while there can be some well okay, some
things have to go right, but we can pull out
of this for instance, if they win the division, the.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Steelers are in first place. Right now, they are tied
with the raven.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
And how schizophrenic the NFL is right now, I can't
take it, and they have to if they beat the
Ravens on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Wait, they play the Ravens of Summers.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Oh my god, no it is and it's there, right Jacob,
All right, So if they beat the Ravens this Sunday,
who are beatable, by the way, all of a sudden,
it's back on again and Mike Tomlin could salvage this
season and his job.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
I don't think that's gonna happen. I really don't.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
I just don't see how this offense is scaring anybody.
I mean, even the routes that the receivers run on
these plays just look like self defeating. There's no creativity,
no scheming to get guys open. When the middle of
the field is constantly open. Against the Steelers, they're never
running slants for DK, or if they are, he's not

(59:18):
catching it and then starting to fight with somebody like
we traded one pain in the ass for another one.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
At least George Pickens was hilarious.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
Is a productive painting yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 19 (59:28):
And also seeing Roman Wilson trot out there next to
Calvin Austin, I was like, the combined height of these
guys is maybe six foot three, like between the two
of them, like they both look teeny weeny out there
compared to everything's ten weenie.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Calvinhaughson.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Yeah, well, he dropped one early in the game where
one of the throws Aaron Rodgers made Calvin Austin was
unable to bring down because he's a tiny fella. Yeah,
and the quarnerback in front of him is six' three,
yeah and he's you, know five to.

Speaker 19 (59:59):
EIGHT i, just, YEAH i THINK i Think Darnott washington
only got targeted at least maybe like once or twice
during THE voca three times because he dropped the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
One the other one was the interception That mason, threw
and then he did catch. One he got like a
a seventeen yard gain or something like. That but, yeah
it might be he might've been targeted another. TIME i don't.
KNOW i, mean but by that point in the, GAME
i was just, LIKE i can't believe it's happening like this.

Speaker 9 (01:00:21):
Again let me tell you, though not that they lost
to the. Bills, jeff it's how they, lose and to
rub salt in the. Wounds you, know it's seven, o'clock it's.
Dark we're not showing any.

Speaker 19 (01:00:31):
Life there's probably about eight minutes left in the fourth.
Quarter ten minutes left in the fourth. QUARTER i look
at my buddy And i'm, like all, RIGHT i think
we can peel out of here and let's be some.
Traffic as we're walking, up this is off the off
the fourth, down turnover on.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Downs then they hit that.

Speaker 19 (01:00:47):
Renegade the whole stadium started, laughing, like what are you kidding?

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Me, Brother, like oh my. God it was the. Worst
that was renegade. Abuse that was my.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Opinion you keep in the, Box, nat read the, room read.
Them you cannot be trotting that out there and go everything's, fine.

Speaker 19 (01:01:06):
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Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
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Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
VE i can't imagine what the tenor of the postgame
calls was like, Yesterday, mike you.

Speaker 11 (01:02:07):
Know not terrible about a third, Fire Mike tomlin and
the rest just. Depressing, yeah and, why you, know what's
what's going? On why is this? Happening AND i don't
have the, answer nor do, They. Mike sportses are brought
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(01:02:29):
this point because that was an off the charts awful.
Performance but in response to the game has Passed Mike.
Tomlin by line of, thinking it could not have been
more basic What buffalo did. Yesterday, Buffalo buffalo has one
of the great quarterbacks on.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
It play you're talking about just offensively.

Speaker 11 (01:02:49):
Running the running the. Ball they ran the, ball ran the,
Ball they ran the. Ball they ran the. Ball they
were more physical and they ran the. Ball that stuff
is never going out of. Style as much as some
people want to, say almost like the steelershould try it, Right, okay, yeah,
okay he's in. Charge i'm just saying What buffalo did

(01:03:10):
was as basic as it. Gets that was part of
the Deflating they ran the.

Speaker 19 (01:03:14):
Ball James cook was hitting them every Time James cook
got the, ball even in the first. Half WAS i
mean was He he had to be averaging nine yards
of rush in the first half and it was just
just counter yards in the first.

Speaker 11 (01:03:26):
Half, well in the first, half The bills had one
hundred and seventy six total night, yards one hundred and
twenty five, Rushing they were five and nine on third,
down they had twelve first, downs and they'd had the
ball for twenty minutes and fourteen. Seconds what saved The
steelers to that juncture was to. Turnovers, yeah so they're

(01:03:46):
up seven to. Three and then they took care of
that by turning it over on their first two possessions
of the third, quarter and one of them ended up
in their end zone and it got ugly from. There
The steelers knew The bills were going to run yesterday
At Achresser, stadium and they applied a variety of approaches
while The bills were, running they just never stopped.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
It HERE'S. Tj.

Speaker 10 (01:04:06):
Watt they were very. Effective we tried many different things
and weren't. Successful all, Right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
They tried many different.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Things they Were The bills were ten for seventeen on
third and fourth and The steelers are three for ten
on third and fourth. Down they extended a lot of
drives on this.

Speaker 11 (01:04:24):
Defense and To wat's point about trying a lot of,
things That bills opened in three wide receivers first, Snap
so The steelers went to their nickel because that's what
you do against three wide. Receivers cook runs for nineteen
against the. NICKEL i, mean who cares if they have
three wide? Receivers who cares to that? Four they don't
have any wide, receivers they don't have any tackles to
protect on anything that's going to take any amount of

(01:04:47):
time to.

Speaker 19 (01:04:47):
Throw but the unexpected matchup of the night Was Joey
porter Against James. Cook does it seemed like he was
Tackling James cook all the time if he didn't have.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
A few of those, times Would Joey porter and you
made some big back.

Speaker 11 (01:05:01):
And Sante samuel got him on the ground once in
the flat. Too they made him aout four to one
on one tackles quarterbacks or it might have been three hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
YARDS i, KNOW i mean it could have been.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Worse it was the most yards rushing two hundred and
forty nine The steelers ever gave up in that.

Speaker 11 (01:05:18):
Stadium, yeah gotta go back to nineteen seventy, five back
to what they were trying on, Defense tomlins there the
uh the nickel got, burned as we just talked about
on the first. Nap so second, possession they go to
the base against the.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
Run that's supposed to stop the.

Speaker 11 (01:05:34):
Run Ray davis plus, Fifteen Ray davis plus twelve against the.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Base That's Ray. Davis he, uh.

Speaker 11 (01:05:41):
He worked the kinks out of That buffalo running. Game
Ravill Ray, Davis.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Ray davies yea, yea, yeah, YEAH i like. IT i
went a long way for that. One it's. Worse three inside.

Speaker 11 (01:05:53):
Linebackers that's supposed to be an equally adept run pass,
thing and he got some speed out there and some.
Physicality Josh allen gets out on the wing on a
bootleg and gainst six yards on first and. Ten you
get these guys in second and. Four they can keep.
Running you never got them in adverse situations where they
could just attack the nickel, again fourteen yards For, cook

(01:06:15):
the nickel again eight yards For. Cook three inside linebackers didn't.
Work three outside linebackers didn't. Work so base didn't. Work
they tried everything they. Got they just weren't any good at.
It and maybe the exclamation point to, dagger however you
want to call. It third and six from The pittsburgh
eight in the fourth, quarter they're in the nickel And

(01:06:36):
allen runs a design quarterback. Run they hit him at
the three and the pile just gets shoved into the end.
Zone and the problem throughout was one THAT. Tj watt
had no problem. Identifying we just need to look within.
MAN i don't want to look at any any other.

Speaker 10 (01:06:56):
Examples we talk about the talent that we have talk
about everything that we, have but right now we don't
have a kick ass defensive.

Speaker 14 (01:07:04):
Group and that's all THAT i can speak.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
On, wow, well yesterday was another historic performance by The steelers,
defense letting up the most rushing yards In Agestra stadium.

Speaker 11 (01:07:15):
History have a kick ass, group and we were talking
about this stuff back In september And. October when they
are flying around and playing with emotion like we saw
him playing In dublin and seeing on a couple other
occasions they're pretty, good but they don't bring that week to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Week, well Losing harmon really hurt them on the. Line
Losing Patrick queen after that seemed to hurt. Them, Also,
yeah the horse was out of the barn by. Then
and Harm and if it's if Your jenga piece is one.
ROOKIE i know he's the first round rookie and he's pretty.
Good but if Your jenga piece is a first round,
rookie that's that's fourteen. Construction that, yeah that that is

(01:07:53):
not an acceptable scenario to allow you.

Speaker 11 (01:07:57):
Happen we, agree watch said. THERE i, MEAN i give him.
Credit you usually not much to. Say you didn't have.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
A ton to. Say he was pissed on the. Sidelines
you know you're not a kick ass.

Speaker 11 (01:08:07):
Group you say that to a defensive, player that's the
most insulting thing you can, Say.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Right Cam hayward has already said this this.

Speaker 11 (01:08:13):
Year, yeah where's the you, know not enough? Fight, uh
where's the? DISCONNECT i mean it's it's so wildly. Inconsistent,
Well i'd think as much AS i have the follow
up to these postgame interviews this week is going to
be interesting, because Like, jeff you were just pointing, out
you Had Cam hayward pissed About Josh ALLEN tj pissed

(01:08:37):
about how soft the defense, Is Aaron rodgers pissed about
how nobody was on the same, page and then calls
Out john Who smith by, name and then, Mentions, oh
by the, way somebody's not going to.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Meetings? Whoever that? Is what kind of meeting that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Is?

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Is you have to be determined, That, YEAH i get.

Speaker 11 (01:08:52):
It is that like an on the clock meeting or
is that A, hey we're gonna meet tonight and go
over some stuff and do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
A little extra. Work does it? Matter a little? Homework
if you're in the state that you're, at you might
have to do a little extra. Credit, YEAH i think
it does. Matter, yeah that's.

Speaker 19 (01:09:06):
True if you're not showing up to team organized, activities
that's straight up, yeah treason.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Us the other one might just be considered as you,
know if.

Speaker 11 (01:09:14):
You're not doing the, extra that's on the. Player if
you're not doing what you're supposed to be, doing that's
on The.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Yeah good point for allowing that to.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Continue, yeah, well he seemed to be calling out the,
player SO i wouldn't be surprised if it is. Extracurricular
that being, Said Aaron rodgers isn't good. Enough he's not
good enough at. All and with that, injury they put
themselves behind the eight ball for the entire. GAME i
as soon as they started pitching the, ball like this
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Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
How are we going to do this for the whole?
Game is this?

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
Really this was good enough when you looked at it
and practice this, week, like, yep he's gonna, Start we'll be.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Fine, well and you just.

Speaker 11 (01:09:50):
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Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
There and what was the way to beat The bills this? Week,
mike run it down their f and. Throws then why
play the guy who doesn't allow you to?

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
RUN i, know by the, way you can't even throw
that well under his curtain, Circumstances it made no sense
to Play Aaron rodgers. Yesterday and whose decision was that
in retrospect it did? Not and whose decision was that
the head?

Speaker 11 (01:10:19):
Coach, okay tomb ass decisions all, RIGHT i mean didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Work just saying maybe some of it was his. Fault you.

Speaker 11 (01:10:30):
Know they took the injury designation off of. Him they
said he was a full. Participant they said everything was,
fine and it was.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
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Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
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Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Not steelers are in first, place micro. Second all, Right
well if they win this, weekend, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
No they got there's six and.

Speaker 11 (01:10:55):
Six The ravens are six and six and they play
each other, twice.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
So you're staying.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
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Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
The bengals of four and eight are not out of this.
YET i. Die i'm, aware thankfully The browns.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Are that's WHY i kept, saying LIKE i jokingly said
yesterday After mason threw the, pick BECAUSE i was, like all,
right here we Go, mason and no sooner did that
tweet get posted that he threw an interception THAN i
just Put i'm ready For Will.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
HOWARD i was kind of, joking but then.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
All these people are like arguing the merits Of Will,
howard AND i keep calling Him shroudinger's quarterback because it's,
like as long as he never, plays he's observe he's
both the answer and not the.

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Solution he's completely unprepared to. PLAY i, Know i'm. AWARE
i don't really want to that's going around.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Though hey he'll fit right in all, right top plays
of the game when we come. Back but, First Mike.

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Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
FIVE Tb THE Dv Morning Show Jeff Concole, Abbey chrismer
And Mike pursuda And Studio jacob rec. Producing you, know
to Quote Steve martin in The Jerk roll The, ugliness
the top five plays of the game, yesterday And mike
will start off at number five with what would be
a harbinger of things to. Come on the first play

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from scrimmage for The Buffalo, Bills James cook tears off
eighteen yards.

Speaker 4 (01:13:47):
Handoff goes To cook starks left and bounces back to the,
right gets around the, edge, hesitation move along the, sideline
and in the first play of the, game rips off
an eighteen yard game out to the forty one yard.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
Line or nineteen to the forty two okay counting what it,
was point, being it's gonna light.

Speaker 11 (01:14:10):
Yards you were hurd you knew it's gonna get the
fall in the first.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Play you were hoping that something went wrong there and
they would right the rudder and stop the.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Run after giving.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Up an egregious huge game to start the game. Last
that would not be the case at number, Four, mike
can you technically call something a tush push that starts
as not a touch push but ends as a touch.

Speaker 11 (01:14:38):
Push that's a great. Question that was pushing, involved and
there was tushes and ours were being. Kicked Josh allen
ten minutes left? There now what was the?

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Fourteen this was like one minute into the fourth.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Quarter he goes right and keeps going forward and then
gets a little hell up at the end and he
turns it into a twenty three to seven ball, game.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
Gets a snap back the. Pass it's a designed quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
Draw allen running toward the goal, line is stood up
and still pushing and he's. In, well they stood him
up at the, three but then the scrum pushed him
over the goal line and the big quarterback rumbles in
and with that he has set a record for the
most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback IN nfl, history breaking

(01:15:27):
the record that he had tied With Cam. Newton and
The bills go up twenty two to. Seven do you go?

Speaker 11 (01:15:34):
Historic do you think seventy six thrusting touchdown by a?

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Quarterback?

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Storic they stop in? There you think they kick a
field goal or do you think THEY i think they
just run it, Again, yeah because why wouldn't? They All,
right so then it's twenty three. Seven you got an
entire quarter basically a football to get two scores and
two two point conversions if you can manage.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
It what could what could go?

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Wrong, well at number, three this was prior to. That you,
know we're not going in chronological order, here but When
Mason rudolph came into the, game there was a little
bit of hope, That, okay we have a two wristed.
Quarterback he's under the age of, forty.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
He's got a. Mustache what could go?

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Wrong, well he throws his first attempt at the feend
a dk metcalf and then somehow overthrew the tallest man
in the, world play action.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
Pass rudolph back looking, surveying throwing left and intended For
washington and intercepted on the, overthrow and it Is bentford
who already has a. Touchdown now he comes up with
an interception at the forty four yard line of The.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
STEELERS i mean at that point it was ten to
Seven buffalo after giving up the stripsack, touchdown and you, think.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
Okay, well if the defense get hold of me here
we get the ball, back we'll go down and score
fourteen to.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Ten, no that didn't. Happen they went down it scored.
It but late in the, Game, mike.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Your number two playing the, game The steelers have a
chance here all, right you score a. Touchdown they move
the ball down the field. Quick they Remember Mount washington
was on the. Team they hit him across.

Speaker 11 (01:17:17):
The middle for a Big remember the team when they
overthrew it got picked, off and they remembered he was
on the team when they threw too many dropped.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
It he dropped it early in the. Game other than
that wild, SUCCESS i don't understand why they.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Keep going to, WELL i, MEAN dk has how many
drops per? Game you, know eliminate? Everybody, yeah it's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Really don't have that many that. Don't Uh, so fourth and,
two what do you?

Speaker 20 (01:17:43):
Do, well you bring In Spencer anderson and you light
them up outside and you say he's, eligible and then
you run the ball up to got With Kenny gainwell
and you don't even do.

Speaker 3 (01:17:58):
That Particularly rogers gets a.

Speaker 9 (01:18:01):
Snap we'll give the gamewell straight up the middle and
Game well sit in.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
The backfield and he dropped for a one yard loss
and the students will turn the ball over on.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Downs and how Did steelers fans react to? That, well
the in game production team decided now would be a
good time to Play, renegade AND.

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
I, mean have you ever Heard it's almost like they
started to turn.

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
It, down like, sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
All, right that WAS i think that was For Matt
light's feed a Comedian Matt. Light so thanks To matt for,
that but only that failed fourth.

Speaker 11 (01:18:51):
Down i'm at Least i'm looking for silver linings, here
BUT i think everybody lined up in the right. Spot,
OKAY i didn't get an illegal formation pedalt all.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Right, progress baby steps and number one play of the.
Game steelers come out with the ball in the second,
half and on the first play from, scrimmage this.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
Happens play action pass dancing out to his right in
trouble and hit from behind By. Bosa the ball is,
out it is scooped, up it is run in for
A Buffalo bills. Touchdown Christian benford scooped it, up and
one play into the second, half The bills have taken the.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
League that one's On Aaron, rodgers no, question what the
hell is he holding on the? Ball so long for
when you don't have a left, tackle you're on your
backup over. There you already went through all three of your.
Progressions these guys were covered all, night one. Tooth you
have to live to fight another. Day you're not do
you know? What he's doing the same Stuff Russell wilson
used to. Do you aren't twenty five, anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Holding the ball too?

Speaker 11 (01:19:48):
Long AND i actually thought there was a play action
the war and the ward went up the. GUN i
thought he was wide open for a little dump. Down,
yeah get five yards and maybe he runs For they
scored a touchdown that, war, Right that was uh, YEAH
i just can't have.

Speaker 9 (01:20:04):
That at one point in the in the, crowd this
guy next to me was WHAT i was first down
after the third quarter, debacle and he started, saying punt.

Speaker 19 (01:20:12):
It AND i was laughing at, first being, like, yeah punt.
It and THEN i started doing the math AND i was,
like we just had a, strip, sack picks or you,
know a fumble recovery for six and an. Interception, yeah
let's punt. It let's just go ahead and do. It
that actually might mathematically work out better in our.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Favor nobody was making place for The steelers yesterday an
abysmal performance that is going to reverberate all the way
To baltimore Next sunday at one, o'clock when The steelers
faced The ravens with first place in THE Afc north
on the. Line but after the last couple of, weeks you,
know the defense has been hot and cold the entire, Season,

(01:20:48):
mike a little more on the cold. Side when is
the offense done anything that is giving you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
A little bit of hope that they can build on.

Speaker 11 (01:21:01):
Something they're actually way better up until The chargers, game
and it's been scattered since. Then, now they scored some
points Against, cincinnati but the defense had.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
A lot to do with.

Speaker 11 (01:21:11):
That but they were like tenth or eleventh in points
per game in the, league which is not, great but it's,
serviceable you, know flirting with top, third which for The,
steelers they would have a parade based, on you, know
the previous. Years it's just fallen off the end of the.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
Table and gunt.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Splat steelers are six and six and they head To. Baltimore,
well The ravens are six and. Six, yeah The ravens
are terrible, too or unpredictable and. INCONSISTENT i guess you
could say as is basically the ENTIRE Afc north a
bad day yesterday Fire Mike Tomlin chance ringing out through the.

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Stadium they made their way onto the television broadcast and
there is disorder in the.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
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that was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
Awesome people are probably really mad about it, though something
for people always get. Mad, yeah nobody ever universally agrees
that was, great So i'm sure people are.

Speaker 3 (01:22:18):
Upset ALTHOUGH i get.

Speaker 5 (01:22:21):
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a lot of people liked.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
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Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
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Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
Snap cook starts right and finds a hole up the
middle the, field bursts through straight down the field and
inside the ten yard line Before samuel And porter can
bring him. Down they're gonna mark him down at the.
Seven just burst free for thirty one yards on that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
Run that Was james cook long of the day yesterday
on a one hundred and forty four yard. Effort he
averaged four and a half per carry on his thirty
two carries yesterday and just destroyed The steelers, defense who
knew what was coming and couldn't stop. It an awful.
Day they booed, renegade which is kind of Like philly
throwing snowballs At. Santa it's you, know it's the highest

(01:23:42):
form of dissident, Behavior, yes of a. Crowd, well, Fire Mike, Tomlin,
yeah is right up there. Too you, know since The
Matt canada, days The steelers fans have a very low
threshold and four The steelers this. Week it was week,
thirteen or was it week? FOURTEEN i don't even remember now,

(01:24:03):
Thirteen so that's the first TIME i remember them chanting.
Fire Mike tomlin.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
SAME i think you've heard it, Audibly, yeah on.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
BROADCAST i don't know if they ever said that About
Bill kwer and they. Were there's a lot of revisionist
history About Bill. Cower people forget he was close to
he was on the hot. Seat steeler fans were sick
and tired of. Him he won That Super bowl that
kind of saved face for, him and then he ducked
out nicely with his career legacy intact and he is
remembered as a revered coach for the entire time he was.

(01:24:35):
Here that was not the, case but his circumstances did
not go on as long As Mike tomlins. Have in
terms of the dissatisfaction of the fan. Base i've been
putting up with this for a long, time and the
national media is coloring of The steeler fan perception Of

(01:24:57):
Mike tomlin has been so wrong for so long that
they just finally last year started to come around to
it a little. Bit now With steeler fans booming renegade
and chanting Fire Mike tomlin during the game so loudly
that it made its way onto THE cbs. Broadcast, well
there's just no denying, it and you're gonna see it

(01:25:18):
all over the punditry of The National Football league today
That Mike tomlin's seat is officially.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Hot WELL i THINK.

Speaker 19 (01:25:27):
I said it, too but because going into that, game you,
know the crowd walking into the game was hyped. Up
now you could tell it was sort of like a
shaky faith.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
That the people.

Speaker 19 (01:25:38):
Had but there was a lot of chanting back and
forth Between bill's fans And, steelers a lot of here
we Go steelers, chance, yeah going up the. Rotunda but
you could tell deep down in their soul everyone's, LIKE
i don't know about this, one AND i think but
they were trying to put on a good face and
then when it, started the wheels fell. Off then everybody
jumped off the band how quick.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
AGAIN i don't mind losing to The, Bills, JEFF i
don't mind losing to The.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Bears it's how you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Loose it's the way they, lose which gives you no
hope that they'll ever turn this thing around under the current.
Captain you went to A bill's tailgate with a friend
who was A bills fan. Yesterday right, NOW i, mean
were you a little nervous rolling into The bears or
The bill's mafia? Territory, no because it's Still, mike this
is this is still home turf like it was at

(01:26:22):
The cardello. Building but it was funny because if you
that's again a nice thing about the four o'clock game
is it's not night, tailgating which turns Into thunderdome very.

Speaker 19 (01:26:32):
Quick it's still, like you, know one o'clock. Tailgating nobody's
really quite going insane. Yet now there are some people
getting tuned, up BUT i HAVE i had, good pleasant
interactions with The bills fans in a weird. WAY i was,
LIKE i bet you if you did a twenty three
and me, test there's like a lot of shared spiritual
FOOTBALL dna between The bills and The. STEELERS i think
it's probably. Climate we both live in absolutely atrocious VITAMIN

(01:26:55):
d deficiency. Climates AND i could just tell like there
was some kind of kindred understanding and be, like all,
right like we see over, there it's it's all. Good
it didn't feel Like. Philly it didn't feel Like, baltimore
where they're they're. Alien to, me that seemed like your.
Cousin it seemed like a game against like a cousin that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
We, Like like they're AN afc team and we don't
have as much of a grudge built up as we
do With eagles. Fans, yeah, yeah BUT i think just
as A flyers related thing and just kind Of, Pittsburgh,
philadelphia all things. Related you, Know buffalo's In New. York you,
know it's kind of like there's a state line of
demarcation for. Us seems, like like you, said we share

(01:27:32):
a lot of the same, TIME i feel.

Speaker 19 (01:27:33):
Pretty ambivalent towards MOST nfc, Teams but, again my time
At Penn state led me to seethe with broiling hate
anything that has to do with any Any eagles propaganda.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
Whatsoever being A Penn state grid as, WELL i can
tell you as a Western, pennsylvanian you will absolutely Hate
philadelphia And New jersey when you Leave Penn.

Speaker 9 (01:27:51):
State yeah, yeah but, NOW i Mean bill's fans were
pretty pretty cool for the most, part so it was
sort of hard to really hate on, them you, know,
ESPECIALLY i mean they were dogging, us and you were just, like,
hey good for.

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
You we kind of deserved the spanking, Here we deserved
the dog.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
In, yeah bad day yesterday From Mike tom and A
company twenty six to, seven his quarterback calling out players
in the post hit game press.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
Conference that's going to make major news.

Speaker 7 (01:28:14):
TODAY.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Tj watt has had it up to Hear Cam hayward
was pissed At Josh allen said he got need in the.
Stomach Josh allen even fessed up to it to, him so, like,
HEY i had to get you off of.

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
Me.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
Uh and he wasn't wanting to comment About Aaron rodgers'.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Comments he was, asked what did you think of the
fact That aaron basically called you, guys you, know unprepared
and said you're stofting some of the players aren't doing
everything they.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Should he, said go Ask, aaron you, know, WELL.

Speaker 19 (01:28:42):
I think that's a little on Because cam probably hadn't
actually heard the verbatim statement Which Aaron rodgers was basically
saying we. Didn't there was no Film there was a
couple of film sessions that got this, specifically and the
reporter painted it as you're not. Prepared If I'm, Cam
i'm not answering that question BECAUSE i probably have my
own opinion of why we're not, prepared BUT i don't
want to add to the to the to the fire

(01:29:02):
that might have got thrown.

Speaker 3 (01:29:04):
Out the reporter was Hoping cam would be, like, oh
was he talking ABOUT. Dk, YEAH.

Speaker 19 (01:29:09):
I think that's exactly what they were. Going he was
savvy enough to kind of be, like all, Right i'll
take that one in. House how is Your thanksgiving at
The Concho. House by the, way we consolidated this. Year so,
typically if anybody's out there that has two sets of
grandparents that are in The Greater pittsburgh, area you have
to take your children on WHAT i like to call
the you, know The eastern Leg World. Tour On, thanksgiving

(01:29:30):
you got to you got to eat a dinner at
one thirty and then another one at six. Thirty but this,
year my mom hosted my in, laws so they all
came down one, location one, shot one, turkey one, kill
and we were home at eight.

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
Fifteen, phenomenal phenomenal way to do. IT i, had you,
know the usual, suspects my sister in, laws in laws.

Speaker 2 (01:29:54):
Hurt, well my sister in law's sisters in laws come
so they're like. Twice But i've known this family for
a long time because we've Done thanksgiving every year for
like twenty, years and that hit their. Kids they do it, right,
Man they're, like, uh you, know we're kind of at
the age we don't want to be like just sitting
around like the limited couch space or taking up floor

(01:30:15):
for too, long and we've got a Mom's thanksgiving to go. To,
also you, know they're one of those kind AND i
grew up doing that same, thing and so we're one
stop on Their they come in, There, hey what's going.
On they make a, plate they eat it really. Quick
they give a few hugs if you get an walk
right out the, door And i'm, like that was, masterful
and they took.

Speaker 19 (01:30:35):
Bye i'm telling, you at this day and, age there's
so Much from Probably tuesday night last week on Till
sunday night was NonStop, socialization getting invited to. Things these
are all first world, problems good problems to, have but
at one point we started to have we started to
have to send. Delegations we couldn't go as a family

(01:30:56):
unit because there was too much to. Do SO i
sent my wife and one son to a fam delegation
on one, thing and me and my other son went
to another one just to make an appearance as the
ambassador of The southern concoles and uh and make an
appearance and you, know have good pr relations and everything like.

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
That but uh, yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:31:13):
Yeah so it was just NonStop socialization to the point
where The steelers, GAME i got up On sunday, morning was, like,
OKAY i got one more in. ME i was like
trying to get myself amped. UP i was, like, OKAY
i can drink four more. Beers like BUT i.

Speaker 3 (01:31:25):
KNOW i texted my.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Buddy a stupid meme early On sunday and he was, like,
Dude i'm so glad this wasn't an invitation to The steelers.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Game and he's, LIKE i thought you were gonna say
let's go to the.

Speaker 9 (01:31:34):
Game, Yeah, like, no, No i'm out of town BECAUSE
i mean with The steelers, game going, down tailgating everything like,
that you you're you're ending the week with a flourish of,
activity which at that POINT i did NOT i.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
HAD i was running on fumes LIKE i. DIDN'T i don't.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Know if you're into it, though you can't you can't
approach it. Lightly you just if you decide to do,
it you do. It, yeah and we, did and that's
why we went right then. Too the heart of uh you,
know The bill's tailgate and, everything and it turned out
to be. Fun once it's getting out the, door it's
getting out the, door or if you've got the smell
of pancakes in your house and it's.

Speaker 19 (01:32:03):
Warm you don't want to be putting Long johns. On
but as soon as you get out, there it's it's.
Fine did you avoid the fireball shots and stuff like?
That no fireball, Shots no saw no tables get. BROKEN
i was really hoping that somebody would have would, have you,
know done a moon salt through a.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Table but nothing doing down. There too cold for.

Speaker 13 (01:32:19):
That.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Yeah told they came in losing their last. Two what
are they gonna? About? What you're left over?

Speaker 14 (01:32:23):
Game looking?

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
Like it's not?

Speaker 6 (01:32:25):
BAD i LIKE i, SAID i kind of punished on
the turkey and the green beans BECAUSE i still was
trying to be responsible on the leftover. Stuff but, no
it's not it's not. Bad, HONESTLY i have to. SAY
i don't want to brag about, it but, guys the
side dish THAT i brought was the only thing that
was totally.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
Gone oh, okay what WHAT i? Brought all the boys
of the. YARD i cannot believe. THIS i cannot believe.

Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
This it was roasted. VEGETABLES i did this big eat the.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
Rainbow. Dude people want there's lain there's no. Vegetables, no, no, no,
no it's got a good. Dressing the dressing is a
is a What i'm saying is compared to the mayonnaise
laden broccoli.

Speaker 19 (01:33:02):
Casserole oh that's a light that's light fare that maybe
people want on their on their.

Speaker 6 (01:33:07):
Dishes he's got a tangy dressing to, it and it's
got just the right amount of. Salt but then it's
got like really fresh, herbs so the presentation really.

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
Colorful it's nice to the.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Eye flower in. There no, no hell, no, okay hell?
No what time did you? Eat two?

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
O'clock good. Time we went a little later than, normal
so we were waiting for a. BUDDY a buddy of
ours does this big charity thing at the restaurant he.
Owns every year he feeds the. Homeless he feeds five
hundred people or more every. Year he's been doing it
for twenty. Years and he picked up the tradition from
the restaurant we grew up going, to which is like
our local pizza place on the east side of The.
Erie Pos pizza is, amazing and they used to feed the.

(01:33:44):
Homeless and there they were a tiny but they weren't
well you know WHAT i. Mean they were they were barely,
yes but they always did.

Speaker 3 (01:33:52):
That so he picked up the.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
Tradition he's been doing it for. Years and he, goes,
Hey i'm coming out to eat with you. Guys, afterwards we're, like,
great well wait a little. While he's like, okay and
then it comes to around three o'clock or, so he's, like,
hey it's this is take. Forever i'll be out after.
Five he, goes don't wait for, me you guys. Eat
so we end up eating around four o'clock or something like. That,
well And i'm, like, yeah he'll probably be a little
later than. Five, well five comes and, goes six comes and,

(01:34:15):
goes seven comes and who?

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
Whoa eight comes and.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Goes all, right he's probably not coming out understandable on
day to day. Whatever you. Know we have everything put.
Away we're settled down to watch, planes trains and. Automobiles
he rolls into the door like hitting a vape and
he's like and he's like, yo and he's got a
buddy with, him and he goes what and he goes
plus one and we're like, sweatpants like you, know we're movie.

(01:34:41):
Watching we're farting on a cout, Right and he's, like
you guys already. Eat we're like it's eight forty five
four hours and he's, like, man And i'm, like come,
On and so we all got up and like brought
out all the food and, like you, know made a
dinner for and then it turned into, HERE i was
just dozing off on the couch and now all of a,
SUDDEN i am in a four hour session of having

(01:35:04):
drinks and listening to. Music and then it's two o'clock
in the morning and my brother AND i are looking
at each other like we were.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
Out we were on the, couch we were ready to,
sleep we were all gonna pass. Out it was gonna be.

Speaker 9 (01:35:15):
Great and then you, know our buddy walked in and
we started just everybody got a second. Win did anyone
know this plus one? Stranger, well he's a is he
frequent like? Part, no he's a he's his blessed one.
Everywhere he's always got this guy that's just like hanging
around with, him you know WHAT i. Mean i'm sorry to,
explain but, yeah you rolled.

Speaker 14 (01:35:36):
In we're, like, hey how are?

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
You and uh rolled out the, food gave him, plates
and THEN i don't, know it just kicked everyone in the.
Gear and then we started talking music and then we started.
Fighting and THEN i played them that, weird weird out weird.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
Album you showed me the. Foil, yeah it's so.

Speaker 19 (01:35:51):
GOOD i don't know bringing a bringing a unannounced plus plus.
ONE i FEEL i can go if you if you
have some kind of idea of the, person THEN i
think that's one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:59):
Thing it might be a. Play if it's a, hey
this Is. BOB i just met him last. Week, anyway he's.
Cool he came back.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
And go amendiment the homeless feeding. Today, anyways he seems.
Cool cay stay. Here, no but that, guy, no we
we know, him but he would never come on his.
Own he would only come as a plus. One you
know What i'm saying.

Speaker 19 (01:36:16):
Now it was nice in my in My thanksgiving situation
because my wife's mom is an excellent cook like, so
and they've come down to my parents. Beforehand, now if
you know anything about, me, uh you could probably tell
that my parents are a teeny bit absent. Minded there's
been Several christmases And thanksgivings where my mom at four,
forty will go why is the oven not? On and

(01:36:37):
then it turns into a ninety Five. Thanksgiving so just
as a, backup my mother in law was just, Like
i'm just going to cook a backup. Turkey, yeah so she.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
Brought a full backup turkey just in, case just in, Case.

Speaker 9 (01:36:49):
Rudolph, yeah, yeah that's somebody's microwave is on the fritz
or something like.

Speaker 3 (01:36:54):
That, yeah it worked out. Great. Yeah my brother actually does.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
That he cooks his own at his house and then
our family, Home, like he makes one there and Then i'm, like, well,
dude you want to take some of these leftovers with?
You and he's, like NOW i got one at home.
Already i'm, like what is? This, YEAH i make a separate.
ONE i don't trust that you guys are going to leave.
Anything And i'm like that's probably a good.

Speaker 19 (01:37:11):
Balance, well turkeys get handed out this time of, year
like like turkeys, BASICALLY i mean everyone's hand in turkey's.
Out SO i guarantee you our listener base right now
is sitting on three frozen turkeys somewhere in their overlapped
social circle that they're just gonna have to use at some.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
POINT i had to run up.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
And get Like rosemary in, time like from a giant
eagle at like two o'clock, right And i'm Like i'll go.
Up you, know the giant eagles. Open it always drives
me kind of. CRAZY i feel so bad for the
people who have to work. There And i'm, like, Hi,
eli thanks for working, today, buddy and he's, like no,
PROBLEM i don't care anywhere to.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Go i'm like, This.

Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
But there was a guy behind me with a full,
turkey just sitting in, line And i'm, like it's like two.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
O'clock you know you got to defrost that. Sucker he's
throwing that. Microwave, like, dude it's a.

Speaker 19 (01:38:01):
Good way to get worms. Today, yeah there's not. That
You're you're out of luck at that, point. Buddy you
got to go To.

Speaker 3 (01:38:06):
Rby's.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
Well speaking of, words we made the determination earlier this
morning that your leftovers are still good.

Speaker 6 (01:38:12):
Today today's the last, day so you've got to eat them.

Speaker 19 (01:38:15):
Today AND i got one big. Plate i'm gonna take
a calculated risk on that. One, Really, Yeah i'll let
that ride for two more. Days we got enough turkey
in there To i'm gonna let that. Ride i'm gonna
freeze the Turkey i've left after. Today IT'S i have too.
MUCH i got too. Much, also too much, pie way
too much. Pie, yeah we had a couple of backup
pies that are still sitting around and you, know not

(01:38:36):
letting those go the. Waste that's that's getting hit. Up
sometimes those are getting hit up for. Breakfast have a breakfast,
pie breakfast pie with two.

Speaker 9 (01:38:43):
Coffee are you kidding? ME i had breakfast pie the
last three. Day i'm probably gonna go home and have
some brunch.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Pie.

Speaker 2 (01:38:49):
Yeah but one of the good things About Thanksgiving day
was the football games were fun to. Watch what they
were for me BECAUSE i was on the right side of.
Things but that first halftime, SHOW i was excited for
The detroit. Game, yes WHEN i heard That Jack white was.

Speaker 6 (01:39:04):
Going to be out, there and it went well AND
i think it got high. Marks Jack white was joined
by Bellow detroit Native eminem during the halftime show of
The Green Bay Detroit lions, game and that was At
Ford field On. Thanksgiving so the collaboration we talked. About
it wasn't a huge surprise Because eminem was the producer
of that halftime show and so there was always going

(01:39:27):
to be a possibility maybe that he would pop, up
but maybe you couldn't totally imagine. It to, me it
wasn't a surprise Because Jack white has worked with rap
artists before he worked With beyonce on her.

Speaker 5 (01:39:38):
Record i've seen him pop up on a bunch of, stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:39:40):
But like he started his set With that's How I'm,
feeling from his solo Album No, name so he busts
out with.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
That he started with The White Stripes Hello.

Speaker 6 (01:39:51):
Operator in the middle Of Hello, Operator eminem comes out
to rap to Like collapse and it was kind of
a collaboration.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
There so here's a little bit of that a GENTLEMAN'S.

Speaker 7 (01:40:11):
I loved. It i'm just not turn it up a.
Little you're coming to me feel.

Speaker 3 (01:40:42):
AWESOME i.

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
THOUGHT i thought it was, awesome AND i love the
way That Jack white kind of had the interplay between
the two of. THEM i don't, know there's something cool
about That detroit respect that was happening.

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
THERE i kind of liked that it.

Speaker 7 (01:40:53):
Did it.

Speaker 19 (01:40:53):
WORKED i you, know The White stripes just because Of
Seven Nation. Army there's like a whole generation of, kids
like my ten year old knows Who Jack white. Is
they like That Archbishop Harold holmes song was out in
this last. Summer that song is so, bizarre it's SO i,
know it's, weird but it was cool and it stuck
around like a lot of at least kids are you
know that that age seemed to really like. It so

(01:41:15):
it seemed even though he's sort of a a not
QUIET i would don't want to say a legacy act
at this, point but a little bit on that side of,
things but it seemed, fresh even in the context of
that halftime.

Speaker 6 (01:41:27):
Show he did close this out with Seven Nation, army
which we can hear a little bit of that as
we were watching it At, Thanksgiving like all of my
family were going, like.

Speaker 5 (01:41:37):
What is that garbage guitar he's? Playing And i'm, like.

Speaker 3 (01:41:41):
That's kind of his. THING i love the DELAY i kept.

(01:42:08):
Making the drummer must have had it just headed.

Speaker 9 (01:42:10):
Down oh, yeah the same.

Speaker 7 (01:42:11):
Thing don't think that's What.

Speaker 19 (01:42:26):
I've heard this song a billion, times AND i gotta tell,
You i'm still not quite totally sick of.

Speaker 7 (01:42:32):
It, NO i mean this part of the crowd went.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
CRAZY i mean he had them in the palm of.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
His, hand AND i know he's the hometown boy and,
everything but that was just such a badass.

Speaker 3 (01:42:48):
Performance and then The cowboys, game who did that? Halftime?
Uh Post?

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
Malone, yeah Apparently Post malone hung out after the game
and was like playing pickup football with a couple of
his buddies on that field for a couple of, hours
which is a pretty, Cool like if you play, halftime.

Speaker 3 (01:43:06):
You're, Like i'll do it on one.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
Condition, yeah it might be AND i get to use
the field for two hours and play pickup game with my.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
BUDDIES i, mean that's Your Turkey. Bowl that's pretty cool to.

Speaker 19 (01:43:15):
Me that shows you that this is sort of WHY
i think people forgive Post malone for you, know what
might be considered sort of subpar musical. Ability is because
he just seems like you want him as your. Friend
that makes it because he'll kind of bring you to that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
Stuff yeah. Exactly, hey you want to play Your Turkey
bowl AT at AND T? Stadium YES i. Do mice
got a full report on last night's, debacle the loss
to The bills twenty six to seven at home Fire
Mike Tomlin, chance they boo. Renegade Thanksgiving week could not
have ended worse For Mike tomlin and The Pittsburgh, Steelers

(01:43:52):
but it can all turn Around sunday with a win
In baltimore over The well their first, play they're both
s and six and it's TECHNICALLY i guess The ravens
have a game in hand. Somehow why do they have
one up on us because we lost to The? Bengals
is that what it? Is is it THE Afc Northern record?
Tiebreaker it's the division? Record, yeah, okay we had no

(01:44:14):
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The steelers are now six and, Six, mike and with
a win over The ravens this, weekend they'd be atop
the AWFUL Afc.

Speaker 11 (01:45:21):
North they are currently not a top THE Awfulfc north
because of record in common games With. Baltimore that's the current.
Tiebreaker might be The chicago, Game, yeah because they both
lost to The. Bengals, yeah. Okay as for what we
saw yesterday afternoon and, evening after one of the most

(01:45:42):
disastrous game day performances In Akrosher stadium, History steelers Quarterback
Aaron rodgers found himself talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
Practice we look at we look at.

Speaker 13 (01:45:52):
It i'm not.

Speaker 12 (01:45:53):
SURE i thought we had a better preparation week and
a poor practice week for whatever. Reason i'm not sure
if it was a cold weather or what it, was
but it wasn't our best week of. Practice that doesn't
always translate to a negative. Performance there's been great practice
weeks and bad, performances and poor practice weeks and great
performances over them twenty one years of my. Career but

(01:46:14):
it wasn't the best practice. Week so we got to
practice and the elements, better and the execution again just
wasn't where it. WAS i can give you a better
ants On, wednesday but let me look at the film.

Speaker 11 (01:46:24):
First lack of energy was one of the things he
cited about the actual physical.

Speaker 3 (01:46:31):
Practices SO i.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
Know that you like to put the onus on the
players for stuff like, this but at what point is
it a coach's responsibility to make sure these practices have
the requisite energy.

Speaker 11 (01:46:45):
When the game plays out and they. Lose you can
do the, Autology, yeah you gotta win. Games if you're
not winning, games it's all on the. Coach that's where it.

Speaker 19 (01:46:59):
STARTS i think it probably is tough too for because
he said in his statement right, there like, listen i've
been in the league for twenty, Years we've had bad practice.
Weeks that doesn't always translate to we're going to dog
it in a. Game BUT i think that if everything
is trending that way and practice is, bad then that's no.

Speaker 3 (01:47:19):
Good, well because he brought it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:20):
UP i, mean having That kyriat is, nice but you
don't bring it up if you don't think that's the.

Speaker 19 (01:47:24):
REASON i think he was also trying to give some
answer to what just happened right there and maybe search
it for someone.

Speaker 11 (01:47:31):
Wet but, yeah BUT i would be more intended to
agree With randy that, yeah he wants to see that.
Change and he, was of course asked a fall about,
that and he, said they're doing what they need to.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
Do they just need to do it. Better a lot of.

Speaker 12 (01:47:48):
Things you, know we had some extra film sessions this.
Week we had extra walk Through saturday. Night so that's the,
preparation LIKE i, said was, better but the practice wasn't
as good AS i thought it. Was that doesn't mean
you have a bad, performance but the execution today just
wasn't good.

Speaker 11 (01:48:06):
Enough, no he's talking about extra stuff we heard From
rogers today where he said not showing up the film
session that. RIGHT i think he's revealing that that was
additional to, homework if you, Will, WELL i look.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
Forward to Hearing Mike tomlin's take on all of that
when he's asked about it this, week and if it's something.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
That he's Real. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:48:26):
Yeah one Thing rogers was adam About bill's twenty Six
steelers seven and the wild inconsistencies that we've seen on
the way to six and. Six that stuff's on the
players not the coaching.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
STAFF i know what you're trying to, ask And i'm
not going to go down that road at.

Speaker 14 (01:48:43):
ALL i believe in the coaching.

Speaker 12 (01:48:45):
STAFF i believe In Mike thumlin's WHY i came, here
and players need to take, accountability my self, included AND
i will AND i will continue.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
TO i got to play.

Speaker 12 (01:48:54):
Better but there's eleven stars on, offense eleven on. Defense
plus with the personnel, group is that we run and
we're going to have A monday To. Saturday we can
be really proud of our Best monday To saturday and
go out and play our best game and take control
of the.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
Division ten years, AGO i would have been okay With
Aaron rodgers playing that game with the limitations that he
had because of the left wrist injury at forty one
years of age and having the limitations that he, HAS
i don't think there's any way he should have started this.
GAME i don't think he should have BEEN i mean
emergency quarterback designation or something like. That he severely hampered

(01:49:31):
what they could do on, offense and they prepared for
a very limited output when the key to this was
very simply run the hell out of the. Ball all,
day and by Playing Aaron, rodgers you limited your ability
to be successful running the.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
Ball your best chance to do it's under, center and
they took that away on their.

Speaker 11 (01:49:52):
Own, yes and it did not, work and it did
not work in spectacular, FASHION i, think And i'm just
going to speculate. HERE i think part of the decision
making process Was Mason rudolph against The bears played, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
But not well enough to.

Speaker 11 (01:50:11):
Win, now none of them played well enough to, win
but he missed all of his deep. Shots, yes and
he couldn't get them in the right formation at the
end of the game when everything was at, stake and
they ran that snap With Kenneth gangwell in the wrong
spot and it was an illegal formation and.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
You Saw rogers on the. Side oh my, god we're
in the wrong right like.

Speaker 11 (01:50:32):
You're hoping With. Rogers that doesn't. Happen i'm guessing. Here
can't the coaches called time out there.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
Too you, Can BUT i think we only had like,
one we only have one left at That The bears
had that.

Speaker 11 (01:50:44):
One they had all, three but you're you're saving those
in case it doesn't, work and then you get the
ball back because that was the second to last.

Speaker 3 (01:50:51):
Possession you.

Speaker 11 (01:50:53):
KNOW i talked To Calvin austin about that last week
and he, SAID i should have just stepped, Up, like
at least we would have been in the right, formation.

Speaker 3 (01:50:59):
Even he wasn't the one that was supposed.

Speaker 11 (01:51:01):
To, yeah at least would have been a legal, play
even though the formation would have been screwed.

Speaker 3 (01:51:05):
Up, now how screwed up would it have?

Speaker 11 (01:51:06):
Been if he's two feet ahead of where he, was
would he still not have been able to scramble for
twenty two?

Speaker 3 (01:51:11):
Yards they're just in a bad spot right. Now they're.

Speaker 11 (01:51:15):
Groping, well they should have Played, Mason, YEAH i don't
think there's any, question and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Then lived with what limited passing attack you'd be able
to use against.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
THEM i don't know how much passing attack there was
going to be. YESTERDAY i mean there was tents getting blown.

Speaker 19 (01:51:30):
Out, yeah the wind on the, field Like Lynn swan
was trying to weigh the terrible twel and it wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:51:36):
Go it took him. Aloft, yes, YEAH.

Speaker 11 (01:51:42):
I MEAN i was tweet a picture from the stadium
before the pregame show and, say, hey pregame shows coming.
On listen to, it because that's what you do now
AND i took one of The american flag atop the
scoreboard and it was.

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
ROPED i mean it.

Speaker 11 (01:51:57):
Was, yeah the wind was the. Factory you get up,
there you run the ball and get yourself into third and,
three and then you can do either. One do a
little play, action, boot do a little dump.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
Down i'm weren't you surprised that he said that he
was throwing to account for the wind on the one
The wilson where he missed him.

Speaker 3 (01:52:14):
Completely Aaron, Rodgers oh, yeah he sailed it on.

Speaker 11 (01:52:16):
Him WAS i surprised he was accounting for the? Wind, yes,
no because that seemed to be way too, far even
for the. Win he thought the wind was gonna knock
it down a. Little, YEAH i don't know, why and it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Didn't BUT i thought that was even by the way
he reacted in real, TIME i thought that was On
Roman wilson not getting to where he was supposed to.
Be they made it sound like it was on, him
WHICH i don't think he would do if it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:40):
Wasn't, no he doesn't strike, me, said, hey my, fault.

Speaker 11 (01:52:45):
Guys, YEAH i threw it for four touchdowns and five hundred,
yards but it's on.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
Me Ben, roethlisberger my Favorite. Ben you threw for five
hundred yards and six touchdowns. Today somehow the team lost
forty one to thirty. Eight, YEAH i got to be. Better,
well you set every franchise record for one game. Performance,
YEAH i gotta be. Better steelers The ravens at plus
six and. Six The ravens have a minus four point.

(01:53:10):
Differential The steelers have a minus eight point. Differential steelers
have scored eight fewer points than The ravens and allowed for.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
Fewer i'm surprised that. CLOSE i don't know. Why, wow seems.
Crazy jerry Do like will be joining us here in
just a little.

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
Bit we'll check in With jerry get his postgame take
on what went down, there plus maybe an update on
a couple of the. Injuries Rob king with a power
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Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
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Speaker 22 (01:54:19):
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Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
Fine how are?

Speaker 7 (01:54:22):
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Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
Mane i'm all. Right so here's my question to.

Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
You If Mike tomlin had to do it all over,
again would he Allow Aaron rodgers to start with that
banged up left?

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Wrist?

Speaker 22 (01:54:34):
Well, uh the simple answer to that question is, yes
he would because he believes in what he, does and
he looks at that gave he feels that gave them
the best option to.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
Win but seeing that he was so limited it actually
affected the running, game he might wouldn't have rethought that like,
actually oh.

Speaker 22 (01:54:55):
Yeah you, know, yeah perhaps in. Retrospect but to you
to your, Question, RANDALL i don't think there's any question
beyond whatever limitations he. Had he just looked uncomfortable playing
and and you, know And i'm sure you, know wondering
when he's going to take the first hit on the,
risk what if he, falls how's it going to? Respond you?

Speaker 8 (01:55:16):
Know WHAT i.

Speaker 22 (01:55:17):
Mean so he just looked kind of just, uncomfortable out of.

Speaker 8 (01:55:21):
Sorts most of the.

Speaker 22 (01:55:23):
Time obviously his numbers bear that, out but you could
just see in the way he was playing early on
that certainly seemed to be the. Case And, YEAH i
don't know That Mason rudolph would have been a better
option in. Retrospect, yeah probably because the offense really couldn't
perform much. Worse SO i DON'T i just think THAT i.
DON'T i don't think there's any. Questions you know that

(01:55:45):
he was definitely going to be limited and and and it.
DID i, mean the numbers speak for. Themselves where you
know season low's first downs Yards obviously it wasn't very.

Speaker 19 (01:55:54):
PRETTY i have five words THAT i don't know Any
Pittsburgh steelers fan has asked, Ever but did we Miss Broderick?

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
Jones?

Speaker 22 (01:56:02):
YEAH i don't think that was a bigger. ISSUE i you,
Know mike AND i discussed this on the pregame, show
and we talked about it With, max AND i Think
mike just went right down To gauntlet and asked everybody who,
came whoever else appears on the, show who will they
miss More Broderick jones or.

Speaker 14 (01:56:20):
You, Know, Derek Derek harmon.

Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
Andous it was.

Speaker 22 (01:56:25):
Unanimous in, FACT i think even When Matt, williamson the
last character who comes, on Said Derek, Carkman mike AND
i looked at each other, like, well there you. Go it's,
unanimous and just wanted to get that out.

Speaker 3 (01:56:35):
There Jered. Case people were paying close, attention.

Speaker 22 (01:56:40):
AND i think once, again the numbers bore that out for.
Sure and look who's. Next The Baltimore ravens five hundred
and nineteen yards rushing in the last two games against The.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
Steelers, yeah not Having Roderick jones for this, one you,
know as much as he has not lived up to.
EXPECTATIONS i, mean they're gonna have an offensive line that
is not at full strength right.

Speaker 3 (01:57:04):
Now what is the best way for them to beat
The ravens?

Speaker 22 (01:57:08):
Run but your, question know About Broderick, Jones, YEAH i
think they did miss him because the one thing About Broderick,
jones you, know he's been kind of on the. UPTICK
i mean he's you, know his play has not been an.
Issue so you, know not having, Him i'm Certainly i'm
certain it probably hurt.

Speaker 8 (01:57:26):
Them.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
Well that first play in the second half was a
fumble because you know the guy.

Speaker 3 (01:57:30):
Coming Around Broderick jones was off. McCormick that was.

Speaker 22 (01:57:33):
Yeah, yeah he Came, yeah he came up.

Speaker 11 (01:57:38):
Where rogers stepped up and you're kind, of you, know
retreating blocking the. Guy and then the quarterback gets in
front of the. Block what are you gonna?

Speaker 8 (01:57:46):
Do hold?

Speaker 15 (01:57:47):
Them?

Speaker 22 (01:57:48):
Yeah, Yeah so.

Speaker 3 (01:57:50):
How do you beat The.

Speaker 22 (01:57:50):
Ravens, well the first thing is obviously going to have
to Contain Derrick, HENRY i, mean and and just based
on what we have seen or what was certainly what
we saw, yesterday good good rock with. That but the,
offense you, know it's just you, know if they can't
run the, ball then obviously they're going to be in.
Trouble and that's been the. Case and when they've been
able to run the, BALL i, mean you, know even

(01:58:12):
looking in In chicago last, week the one THING i
thought that you could take away from that, game, well
there were two, things and one was their ability to
contain The bears run, game which we saw Against philly
was can be a Daunting BUT i THOUGHT i like
the way their offense answered all The bears, Touchdowns bear
scored the offense. Answers there was none of that. Yesterday

(01:58:33):
so you, know The ravens aren't exactly hitting on all
cylinders right now. Either I've cincinnati's defensive. Effort, LOOK i,
KNOW i know The. Bengals you, know did The proverbials
shoot themselves in a foot losing two touchdowns the way
they did turning the ball over five? Times you know
that we see that's REALLY i don't want to say

(01:58:53):
that's the only way The steelers, win but that's the
only way To steelers win taking the ball. Away and
of course they that. Early uh and but if they're
not taking it over and capitalizing on, it then you,
know and they can't stop the. Run, There they're in
a heap of.

Speaker 19 (01:59:08):
Trouble we were, Saying Joey porter made some great arm
tackles On James, cook And i'm a little afraid of
what he's gonna have A he's gonna be trying To
it's like Tackling Derrick henry next week is going to
be trying to like Tackle.

Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
Secretariat, like it's just not gonna work the same.

Speaker 8 (01:59:21):
Way you.

Speaker 22 (01:59:23):
Know i'm at least glad you mentioned that BECAUSE i
Thought Joey porter did a good. Job BECAUSE i made
several notes of some of the tackles that he made
because he prevented some long runs with with that and
and wasn't it Was Joey porter was the one who
Foiled Lamar jackson not at the goal?

Speaker 13 (01:59:41):
Line?

Speaker 22 (01:59:41):
Right was it last year or two years? AGO i
remember blew up that? Play was that on the two point? Conversion,
well T j kind of night. Through But joey was
the one who ended up making a tackle and that's
hard to do On Lamar. Jackson but, NONETHELESS i thought
he was VERY i thought he was pretty good in
in run if you can say that against the team

(02:00:02):
that had two hundred and forty nine yards Of.

Speaker 7 (02:00:03):
Russia, yeah, no it really could have. Been, yes it
could have what you, know for a. Team loved God.

Speaker 22 (02:00:12):
JA i love the fact THAT. Tj watts Said i've
never seen a team run the same play over and
over again and have success doing. It and that was an.
Indictment that was an indictment of his own. Team, yeah
and his, teammates you, know the failure to Stop James
cook just keep continually bouncing it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:29):
Outside i'm not taking anything away from the player's responsibility
and all, this but like it's a group failure and the.
COACHING i am JUST i am completely uh you, know
uh miffed at How Pat fryarmouth is not utilized more
often in this. Offense, Uh john new how he's not

(02:00:50):
utilized more often in this. OFFENSE i know that he
ran the wrong route on the you know When aaron
checked to the inside re route there and he stayed.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
Outside but given the.

Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
Foibles Of Arthur smith's, offense not having a true number
two right, now.

Speaker 3 (02:01:06):
How have they not figured out a way to Get
friarmuth more?

Speaker 22 (02:01:09):
INVOLVED i hate to say, IT i don't think they
have a true number one right now when you look at.
It even the Way Dk metcalf very true has Performed,
randy the lack of utilization Of friarmuth has baffled me all.
Year it's a guy who's had three state years of
sixty some. CATCHES i just don't get. It you, Know Arthur,

(02:01:30):
SMITH i, know you know he loves to utilize all
his tight.

Speaker 8 (02:01:33):
ENDS i don't think he.

Speaker 3 (02:01:34):
Does people keep telling me THAT i don't think he.

Speaker 22 (02:01:36):
Does, No i'm saying he loves, to but they, just you,
know they just don't involve. Him the only time they
involve him is basically you, know we Saw friarmuth's big
contributions earlier when he had the two touchdowns in the one.
Game we see him go down the field or certainly
down the numbers to a certain degree fifteen seventeen, yards
which they can't do with the other tight. Ends john
New smith is for a guy who caught eighty eight

(02:01:59):
passes last year In miami or eighty, six whatever the number.
WAS i, mean that guy is a non factor in the.
Offense and this is An Arthur smith, guy and he's
just not used at. All And i'm not saying he's
a secret, weapon but he has he's probably if there
are a number of disappointments this, year he is right
at the top of the.

Speaker 11 (02:02:19):
List he's a Secret, Jerry he's just not a secret.
Weapon don't tell our coordinators that we have, Him. Jerry
you you have audience With Art rooney on.

Speaker 2 (02:02:30):
Occasion what do you think the owner's thinking when he's
hearing fans chant for the head coach to be fired
in acrosser stadium and booing.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
Renegade the renegade thing was.

Speaker 22 (02:02:44):
More was the most surprising to, me and it, was
of course it was just horrible timing. Too AND i
know they feel compelled to play. It they have scheduled,
timeouts they kind of know when they're going to play,
it but you, know to do it after you're stopped
on fourth and two it to build. Seven you, know
the timing wasn't very. Good there's no question the whole

(02:03:07):
thing is disappointing and frustrating to. THEM i don't, know
you know when the one thing that will get an owner's.
ATTENTION i think The Green bay game when there was
so Many packers, fans meaning you, know they're Obviously steeler
fans were selling their tickets and so that and the
disgruntlement of the. Fans, LOOK i don't think that's going

(02:03:29):
to change, anything but there's no question it has to
get their, attention because that's the last thing you want
to lose your fan. Base, now are they going to lose?
Them though they'll you, KNOW i mean some of.

Speaker 3 (02:03:40):
Them, yeah.

Speaker 22 (02:03:42):
If nothing, else it certainly gets their. Attention they're well
aware of. That every owner is aware of that when
they start seeing not that there's empty seats at act for,
sure but you get my. Point if you're going to
start selling it to the other team and you're hearing
that that gets their.

Speaker 3 (02:03:56):
ATTENTION a lot Of bills fans there yesterday as.

Speaker 22 (02:03:58):
Well, yeah AND i expected that because of well because
it's The, bills and you know The bills. Mafia you
know how they. Traveled so, yeah there.

Speaker 3 (02:04:07):
Were a lot there and in the stadium at the
end of the.

Speaker 22 (02:04:11):
Game, yeah so there's no. Question, look he hears it
and and and they don't like, It and is it
going to do any is it going to change? Anything,
no but doesn't get their. Attention.

Speaker 2 (02:04:22):
Yes do you think That Aaron rodgers was speaking about
people missing film study that is like As mike has described,
it you, know the nine to five required, stuff or
when he was saying people didn't show up for, it
he meant the more extracurricular film study that they were
doing throughout the.

Speaker 22 (02:04:41):
Week but, yeah that that's WHAT i took from. It
and and you, know that was the one thing that
was stood out to me yesterday too when T. J
watt said they were flat And Aaron rodgers talked about
a lack of energy and tempo in, practice THEN i
know he you, know he issued the little Caveat, Look

(02:05:03):
i've seen bad practices turn into good, games And i've
seen good practices turn into bad, games will become bad.
Games but when when you, know when he has, this
he's it's about the third time this year he's talked
about what he senses before a game and what he.
Sees so when when you hear that in a game

(02:05:24):
like that against The bills at, home after the After,
buffalo excuse, me After baltimore has handed you a little
gift by losing to The, bengals giving you the opportunity
to reclaim the division by yourself and to come play
the way they, Did, uh you, know not, inspired no.
EFFORT i don't want to say no. EFFORT I i
can't gage. That that's unfair to. Say but certainly with

(02:05:45):
no enthusiasm or energy or tempo to use their words
and come out, flat then to, me that's, uh you,
KNOW i. DON'T i don't understand, that and you know,
what shame on them for, that you.

Speaker 2 (02:05:56):
KNOW i Know abby can attest to this as. Well
the difference between being in a band and on an
athletic team is bad practice means good, gig good? Gig,
yeah usually, yeah bad practice is good. Gig BUT i
think that that's what you just say because you just
had a bad. Practice you're, like, no, no, NO i
won't be inviting the. Gig i've had, great great practices
that result of great.

Speaker 6 (02:06:15):
Gigs you know why, though because everybody goes home individually.

Speaker 5 (02:06:19):
Practices their ass. Office they're so scared they're going to be.

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
Terrible that is.

Speaker 2 (02:06:23):
True and nobody's going home and doing extra studying right
the film on their.

Speaker 22 (02:06:27):
Own and you, know, RANDOM i always like to have
waited a lot of things to. Go but the same thing,
happens you, know, Guys the same thing. Happens guys have
bad practice sessions before the, game bad warm, ups and
then they go out and you, know and shoot lights,
out and or the opposite, happens a good practice session
on the, range go out and play. Poorly, yeah one

(02:06:47):
does not always correlate to the. Other so you, KNOW
i don't know how much weight to put into. That
but when they start talking about a lack of energy
and tempo and being flat, night, no to, me that's
a whole. Nother that's whole another.

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(02:08:25):
Derek harmon being out yesterday was going to be a big,
deal no matter. What BUT i did not think they
were going to run at will and a, mass the
largest rushing total a team has put on The steelers
since nineteen seventy five and the most yards ever rushed
for against The steelers in that.

Speaker 3 (02:08:45):
Stadium, NO i didn't expect that. EITHER i. DIDN'T i,
MEAN i, Know Derek harmon's, good he's, good.

Speaker 9 (02:08:54):
Right and The jets ran all over him Without Derek harmon,
Too and there's a reason you got A, Harmon there's
a reason you got A, quale, who of course is
injured and. Out it was you, know all season, LONG
i felt like the offense needed to do more for
the defense and just stay out there, longer keep the

(02:09:16):
defense off the.

Speaker 3 (02:09:16):
Field you, know this.

Speaker 9 (02:09:18):
Attrition but The bills really moved the ball well in
the first. Half you, know this was the the students
had the, lead but The bills were playing. Well so
you needed an. Adjustment you needed to go down and whatever,
adjustment whatever that word, means but you needed to go,
down AND i, mean just put some points up.

Speaker 3 (02:09:35):
Simply means quit doing the thing that's not.

Speaker 9 (02:09:38):
Working. Well it worked again and again and again and
again for The. BILLS i mean it was, like you,
know remember those Old Vince lombardi, tapes like we're gonna,
Run we're gonna run this, Sweep we're gonna black, Here
we're gonna we're gonna take it to them every. Place you,
know we don't care if they know what's. Coming well they.
Didn't The bills didn't care if The steers knew it was.

(02:09:58):
Coming The steelers had to know it was.

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
COMING.

Speaker 9 (02:10:01):
Tj watson after the, Game he's never seen the team
be able to do. That just run the same play
or two plays whatever it, was again and again and
again and, again and you can't do anything about. It
it can't be a good feeling when you're on a football.

Speaker 2 (02:10:15):
Field so at that, point is there adjustments you can
make schematically or is this, just hey, man you know
what's coming and you can't stop. It AND i know
that they bounced around and tried a couple of different
things and went in and out, of you, know different defenses,
There but it seemed to me, that.

Speaker 3 (02:10:32):
Like sell out against the run at that. Point, WELL
i think they probably. DID i mean The.

Speaker 9 (02:10:39):
Bills you, know The. Colts they did a great job
against The. Colts they did a great job against The.
Bears The bills were a little bit different because The
bills went with a lot of heavy. PERSONNEL i. THINK i, mean,
AGAIN i haven't seen the. Snap the two tackles.

Speaker 2 (02:10:53):
Were, out their two tackles were, out and they just,
said you know what we're going to but they were you,
know they they, play they play some tight. Ends they
have a tight end Named Jackson hawes who's a rookie
who's basically a glorified, blocker and they just lined. Up
it felt to me like they lined up with a
lot of tight ends and just, said we're going to

(02:11:13):
ram it down your. Throat at that, point there's only
so much you can. Do there's only so much you
can do personnel. Wise you've just got to find a
way to stop. It and they just could not find
a way to stop. It first play from scrimmage for
The bills, yesterday.

Speaker 4 (02:11:27):
Hand uff goes To, cook starts left and bounces back
to the white gets around the, edge, hesitation move along
the sideline and in the first play of the, game
rips off an eighteen yard gain out to the forty
one yard.

Speaker 9 (02:11:38):
Line again and, again same, play same, place start, left cut,
right start, left cut, right start, left.

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
Cut right again, again again again.

Speaker 9 (02:11:47):
Again, Yep and whether YOU i, MEAN i don't know
whether somebody needs to have back side Contain, hey stay,
here stay on this, edge don't go. ANYWHERE i don't, Know,
JA i don't know what to tell, You, randy other
than it was it was a dismal. Watch and it's
hard to know in a game like.

Speaker 1 (02:12:07):
That you.

Speaker 3 (02:12:08):
Know, again.

Speaker 9 (02:12:10):
Here's here's The AND i talked about this all last,
week AND i don't know why this is so Under Mike,
tomlin certainly last, year BUT i think probably historically they've
been a good third quarter. Team like they come out
after halftime and they do a nice. Job remember everyone's
talking about they can't they can't start the. Game Under Matt, cannell,
well they were still winning games because they in the second,

(02:12:31):
half they were able to come out and do things.
Well in this, game you, know they've played of the
top quality teams they've. Played, okay so The chargers kind
of took it to, them but they were leading at.
Half this is the this is the situation in all these,
games and these are all top Teams, Seattle Green, Bay
chicago and The bills not only leading at, halftime but

(02:12:53):
getting the ball to begin the second. Half write a
chance TO i, mean if you if you go down
they were, UP i think it's sixteen to seven against The.
Packers if you go down and score a, touchdown like,
yeah that's maybe game. Over you go out a nice
like seven minute, drive The packers, are they're pretty well. Cooked,

(02:13:14):
instead you, know The packers were they SCORE i, mean
it felt like they scored seven more points WHEN i
was walking out to my. CAR i, mean they just
they just started to run away with, it you know
WHAT i. Mean, so and that's the other thing THAT
i think is tough is that there's been a couple
of games in which things have just gotten away from
This dealers and they just haven't been able to either

(02:13:35):
drive the ball down the field or make a defensive,
stop you. Know AND i understand the defense has been
out there too, much but give us a three and.
Out and and we saw this at the end of
last year, too you. Know Mike tomlin talks about complimentary,
football the inability to make a stop on defense or
go on to drive on offense to rest your.

Speaker 3 (02:13:53):
Defense it's just it hasn't been there in some of these. GAMES.

Speaker 2 (02:13:56):
Tj watt said as much. Yesterday if they got a
three and out, there you know it's the time of.
Possession isn't just the offense's, fault but it does have
something to do with. It and when you're the four
for twelve on third and fourth downs, yesterday they were
not converting when they come. Back Even Aaron rodgers comes
back in the game after he breaks his nose or whatever,

(02:14:20):
happens and Then mason throws the, pick and it's just
like we went from being up ten to three to
now we're down seventeen ten or sixteen. TEN i think
it was the second, play or maybe the first play For.
Scripps fraser dribbles it back To Aaron rodgers and we
lose five. Yards it Was Keystone cops the entire. Time

(02:14:41):
there was no point where they looked like they were
going to get it all. Together the offense was in
complete disarray, yesterday complete, disarray and defensively they were just
getting beaten play after, Play AND i don't know how
you fix.

Speaker 3 (02:14:57):
That, right, yeah this.

Speaker 9 (02:14:59):
WAS i, mean there's been games to me in, which you,
know we've talked about this a lot on our, show
my show At max is that you just cannot keep
having the number of three and. Ounts this, year they
rank among the worst in THE nfl in three and. Outs,
right they're at the bottom of the, league and that's
not a good thing to beat the bottom of the
league in. Right so you're you, know you're getting out,

(02:15:21):
there you're getting the, ball and then you're punning it
away and then and then the defense has to go
right back out there, again and after a while that
causes the defense to wear. OUT i thought that was
a big part of the problem down the stretch last.
Year they've been able to avoid it for the most.
Part it hasn't bitten them too, badly although it's bitten
them in the games they've. Lost but you, know they
they've only won the time of possession twice this, year

(02:15:42):
and once was because they had a kneel down and
had thirty minutes and five, seconds, right they won by ten.
Seconds you, know they were dominated in that facet yesterday
and usually usually that's. Both but Mostly i've been BLAMING
i think that the offense because of all those three and,
ouns they've been the main. Culprit you, know the defense

(02:16:04):
that defends least defends best usually get them off the
field and find a way to get a. Lead you,
know you think about all those four GAMES i just talked.
About if you come up with one drive right, now
you're up two scores or in the case Of Green,
bay three, scores although you could get technically two touchdowns
and two point, conversions but you're up big in those.
Games now you're causing them to have to play. Differently

(02:16:27):
now they've got to throw the. Ball now that quarterback
has to hang on to that ball a split second,
longer right because he's looking to make a play down the,
field and now here comes your defense making. Plays so
that's complimentary, football and This steelers just haven't been able
to do.

Speaker 3 (02:16:40):
It largely it's been the.

Speaker 9 (02:16:40):
Offense but in yesterday's, Game, randy The bills offense was
marching from the jump right from the get. Go they
just weren't converting and the students came up with a couple.
Turnovers so this wasn't a case of they got worn.
Down they were being run against from the very first
play of the, GAME i think offensively, though with that
third down version being the. Story to my way of,

(02:17:02):
thinking it's never third and.

Speaker 19 (02:17:04):
Short it seems like it's always third and, seven third and,
Eight and as a, fan you're looking at third and
eight just thinking, LIKE i don't think they're gonna get,
it and the proof is in the, Pudding like it
never seems like they're they're managing from a from anything
that that might even be possible of converting that third.

Speaker 9 (02:17:19):
Down and, again this has been one that's been tough
to watch all year. Too it feels like third and
seven is a, steep steep climb for The. Steelers and
then against The, steelers, right we've seen a lot of
third and, tens third and eleven be converted against, Them
SO i, mean there's some things to sew up.

Speaker 3 (02:17:37):
Here the only you, know look that this was a
dispiriting loss to.

Speaker 9 (02:17:43):
Me the only good thing about it, is you, know
it would have been nice to have a game in
hand against The, ravens a game lead against The, ravens
but a game ultimately broken. Hand but, yeah ultimately you
have to beat The. Ravens but, still you know that this,
game of all the games they've lost LIKE i. Could, Okay,
seattle you, know things. Happened they had a chance to

(02:18:04):
win THAT da had a chance to win That can
you throw an interception in the end zone the ball gets.
Covered seattle's really, Good, Okay Jalen ramsey makes a defensive
play in That seattle. Game it's completely. Different, yeah Green Bay.
CHICAGO i, mean you had a chance to Beat chicago
at the end of the game or go down and
tie that. Question Green, bay you were leading going into
the fourth. QUARTER i didn't like the way that got
away from. You but, okay that's, fine and Green bay

(02:18:26):
just went and Stopped. Detroit this to, me even even
considering The chargers, game which was not a good performance
on the, road this was. There this was the toughest
pill to swallow this. Year this was the one that
that is going to have fans, thinking it's you, know
it's if you weren't, thinking is the same thing you're

(02:18:47):
gonna be thinking after this. Game this is and and,
listen if you're The, steelers you have to own it
because that's what you put out on the.

Speaker 19 (02:18:52):
FIELD i think one of the stories that isn't getting
talked about enough is that what what might be considered
one of our best.

Speaker 3 (02:18:58):
Players Chris, boswell.

Speaker 19 (02:19:00):
Did he even Have he didn't even have an. ATTEMPT
i don't think he. Did he have any attempts in
The bears game. Either we're this guy Is Ice, cold
a self professed serial, killer you, know as we're not
letting him.

Speaker 3 (02:19:11):
Kill, yeah we're.

Speaker 14 (02:19:11):
Not we're.

Speaker 19 (02:19:12):
Not we're not putting him in a chance to even
make a sixty four yard field, goal which he routinely.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
Makes, well you, KNOW i mean.

Speaker 2 (02:19:18):
That the point being that the offense isn't getting on
the other side of the other side of the.

Speaker 3 (02:19:22):
Field but they have gone forward a little.

Speaker 13 (02:19:25):
Bit.

Speaker 2 (02:19:25):
Yesterday they only went for it once on fourth. Down of,
course that was the fourth and two near the goal.
Line after they threw the ball all the way down
to the goal, line they decided to run it in
on fourth and two and any ill designed play and
we'll leave it at, That and that's when they decided
to try and play renegade after, that which was which
that was a that was a bad.

Speaker 3 (02:19:44):
Choice milk was a bad.

Speaker 6 (02:19:45):
Choice it was the equivalent of like in Spinal tap
when they're, like, oh we gonna Do, stoneinge.

Speaker 3 (02:19:51):
Right it's like.

Speaker 2 (02:19:53):
Read the room, Uh steelers were three for ten with
third and fourth downs, yesterday so but three of nine
and third down efficiency conversely eight of fifteen for The. Bills,
yeah and that was a big part of the. Story
and you, know at least one of those was a,
touchdown if not two of.

Speaker 3 (02:20:12):
Them but the other, thing, too was.

Speaker 9 (02:20:15):
The the you, know The bills didn't need to get
to third down often long first down. Runs it's okay
to get a first down on first, down and it's
okay to get a first down and second that doesn't
have to be third down.

Speaker 3 (02:20:27):
Conversions the play, TOTAL.

Speaker 9 (02:20:29):
I think The bills doubled them up in amount of
plays or maybe The steelers at the end of the
game was seventy four to forty. Three that's, right seventy
four plays and The steelers ran forty three. Plays that
felt every bit like, that though like it.

Speaker 19 (02:20:42):
DIDN'T i remember thinking in the third quarter at one,
POINT i was, like has our offense even been on
the field for more than eight? Seconds like it really
did feel like that third quarter was All bills.

Speaker 3 (02:20:52):
Offense, yeah and yes it.

Speaker 9 (02:20:54):
Was and you, know all year, long you, know people
have been, saying how Come Jalen warren's not getting more.
Carries how Come pat Fire muth's not getting more? Touches
all legitimate, questions and the answer has always been because
we don't have the ball. Enough, Right, so if you,
know if you run ten more plays a, game they've
been out snapped every. PLAY i THINK i think they
might have had more plays last week against The bears

(02:21:16):
for the first time all. Year but So Mike Matt
williamson had the stat that at that pace prior to
last week's, game the defense would play three more games.

Speaker 3 (02:21:25):
In the offense over the course of The it's.

Speaker 9 (02:21:28):
Crazy so where so Imagine Jalen warren gets three more
games at what are his touch is going to look?

Speaker 2 (02:21:34):
Like?

Speaker 9 (02:21:34):
Then And Pat fryarmouth and you, KNOW Dk, Metcalf we've
got to get the. Ball we have to have the
ball to get them the.

Speaker 2 (02:21:40):
Ball maybe if they tried doing it on those rare
occasions when they do have the. BALL i don't, Know,
like is nobody open all? YEAR i don't, Know they're
just double In dk and then nobody else can get.

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
OPEN i don't understand.

Speaker 2 (02:21:53):
HOW i know we were using The jumbo package for
a lot of this season to give some training wheels
To Roderick. Jones but at some, point how are you
not turning that Into friarmuth busting, out you, know open
and getting him the ball and getting him hot and
getting into a.

Speaker 3 (02:22:09):
Rhythm there is no. Rhythm there's no musicality to this.

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
Offense, ever this looks exactly like it looked like Under
Matt canada to, me which is to, me zero rhyme
a reason for anything that they're. Doing this is the
second time this year they should have pounded the, rock
running NonStop and they didn't do. It everybody knew. It
tomlin at halftime, said, yeah we got to run the ball.

(02:22:34):
More and then they go out first play from, scrimmage
drop their broken wristed quarterback back and you, know or
snap it to him in the pistol and they try
to throw the ball. There he checks three guys who
are covered and still tries to make a play like
it's they're making it more complicated that they than they.
Should when you Have Jalen warren And, gainwell who are

(02:22:56):
able to do what they are able to do against
a team who can't stop the, run why the hell
are we not handing it off non stop and use
the guy who can hand off because he's got both wrists.

Speaker 3 (02:23:07):
Healthy so forget forgetting the.

Speaker 9 (02:23:12):
Last time there per you know we are and this
is this is a good example of with all that
information just throw out there like you're trying to be
a bit of a sieve right like after the, game
like your information is just pouring in from. Everywhere you're
trying to figure out what's best and you're hoping that
a lot of the information is.

Speaker 3 (02:23:27):
ACCURATE i believe this one is.

Speaker 9 (02:23:29):
Accurate The steelers in the last two games have combined
sixteen third quarteryards sixteen thirteen against The bears three yards
yesterday of. Offense and keep in, mind let me underscore this.
Again they got the ball to begin the. Half it's
not like they kicked it off and the other team

(02:23:50):
ran seven minutes and then he got a three it
out and they went on another six minute drive and
that was.

Speaker 2 (02:23:54):
It you only got one. Possession you got the ball.
First THAT'S i JUST i don't know what's going on
in the third.

Speaker 9 (02:24:02):
QUARTER i, mean if you're going to point to if
you're going to look at a global thing and everything
you're saying, there certainly they've got to look at, everything,
Right they have to look at.

Speaker 3 (02:24:10):
Everything why is this not? Working why is? That if
you were, global if you're to take a step back and,
say what is the problem with this? Team third quarter
they've Been they've the worst third quarter team in THE.

Speaker 9 (02:24:20):
Nfl and in these, losses five of their six losses
they've been ahead and gotten the ball. FIRST i don't
understand how like that doesn't like it's like if somebody
told you in, math, hey two plus one equals you,
know minus.

Speaker 3 (02:24:35):
Four, NO i don't understand how that adds up that.
WAY i don't understand. It SO i THINK i read it.

Speaker 2 (02:24:41):
Yesterday six times this season they've gotten the ball to
start the second half and it's resulted in four. PUNTS
i don't know how many of those are three and,
ounce an, interception and a fumble return for a.

Speaker 3 (02:24:53):
Touchdown, yeah THAT'S i. DON'T i.

Speaker 9 (02:24:55):
DON'T i can't understand why that's. Happening and and Another
Matt williamson. Stat going into this, weekend there were four
teams that had led in every game four. Teams The
steelers were one of. Them The steelers had led in
every single game this. Year The steelers were six and.
Five the other three teams were twenty five and. Eight

(02:25:16):
that's WHY i just, LIKE i just feel LIKE i
felt all. Along this is the kind of games that's.
Hard you, know it makes you doubt, afterwards BUT i
felt all along like there's more, there, RIGHT i, mean
they've been leading every, game there's the, again it seems
like the formulas in place for, victory and they just
for whatever, reason it just eludes. Them AND i you, know,

(02:25:37):
again if you know you're in with a group, that's you,
know on average eight and, three right and you're six and,
FIVE i don't.

Speaker 3 (02:25:46):
WONDER i just it's mystifying to.

Speaker 19 (02:25:48):
ME i understand how in tune are you in the
in the broadcast booth with what's going on in the,
crowd BECAUSE i felt, like first of, all beginning a third,
quarter like fifty percent of the crowd was even. There
but because of the way that that, PROGRESSED i felt
like the crowd energy was pretty. Good and then after those,
TWO i, mean it flipped harder Than i've ever seen
it flip in my. Life are you aware of that

(02:26:10):
in the booth like that den of the crowd noise
kind of make it up to you guys and tell
a story? Broadcast, yes you know there were times where
you could tell the fans were, up especially in the first.

Speaker 9 (02:26:22):
Half you, know towels are going like they were into.
It you know they're looking for a, stop even early
on in the third quarter after the, touchdown which was
just a gut punch that you, KNOW i, mean you
get you get the ball to begin the second, half you're,
up you have the, ball and twelve seconds later you're you're.

Speaker 2 (02:26:38):
Trailing. Run that's that's very, difficult. Bro, yes you can.
Hear you can hear what's going.

Speaker 9 (02:26:44):
On USUALLY i can hear it through the headphones and
when the place begins to empty out a little, bit
which has happened in this occasion Against Green bay where
the two uh the two biggest. Examples you can hear
the chance of the. Crowd you can hear the lack
of energy or the. Energy, YEAH i can hear it up.

Speaker 4 (02:27:03):
There this is the play that turned the game around
By action pass dancing out to his right in trouble
and hit from behind By. Bosa the ball is, out
it is scooped, up it is run in for A
Buffalo bill's. Touchdown Christian benford scooped it up and one
play into the second, half The bills have taken the?

Speaker 7 (02:27:21):
League what not To?

Speaker 2 (02:27:23):
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(02:28:07):
Bills bills victorious in a record breaking offensive performance for
The Buffalo bill's running backs. Yesterday in fifty, Years you've
not seen this against The Pittsburgh, steelers.

Speaker 11 (02:28:22):
Not Since week two of nineteen seventy, five when those
Same Buffalo bills rushed for three hundred and ten. Yards
had we seen as many as two forty nine which
The bills posted last. Night the juice was on the
loose that day on the ground in their twenty six
to seven just systematic taking a part of The. Steelers

(02:28:44):
there was nothing happening in any phase that was able
to remotely affect the buffalo onslaught and AFTERWARDS. Tj watt
did not mince. Words twelve games into a season that's
threatening to, Implode watt's characterization could not have been more.

Speaker 3 (02:29:05):
Incriminating we just need to look, within.

Speaker 14 (02:29:08):
MAN i don't want to look at any at any other.

Speaker 10 (02:29:10):
Examples we talk about the talent that we, have we
talk about everything that we, have but right now we
don't have a kick ass defensive.

Speaker 14 (02:29:18):
Group and that's all THAT i can speak.

Speaker 8 (02:29:20):
On, wow.

Speaker 3 (02:29:24):
You got nothing if you don't have that as a defensive.

Speaker 11 (02:29:27):
Group there's Been that's the second example of a glaring
indictment from within Cam. Hey we're talked about not having
enough fight after The Green bay, game which is kind
of the same. Thing now they bounce back and played
maybe their best game of the year defensively the next
week Against. INDIANAPOLIS i can't sustain, it. Though we'll see

(02:29:49):
if this can spark something Against.

Speaker 2 (02:29:51):
Baltimore how many times did they get a hand On
Josh allen in the backfield, yesterday only to see HIM i.

Speaker 3 (02:29:57):
Had him with four missed. Sacks but that's part of.

Speaker 7 (02:30:01):
His, DEAL i.

Speaker 2 (02:30:02):
KNOW i, mean your deal is that you, know your
ninety million dollar guy's got to bring him.

Speaker 11 (02:30:07):
Down, yeah at least maybe two of the four. Times,
yeah maybe contained him a little better than they. DID
i don't. Know, offensively they stunk as. Well Aaron rodgers
took himself and his offensive teammates the task would asked
what they might be able to do to fix all
of those issues that were on display against the.

Speaker 12 (02:30:25):
Bills remember when there's film film, sessions everybody shows. Up
and WHEN i checked through a, route you do the right,
route you, Know like john AND i just were on
the same. PAGE i checked to his im breaker and
he ran out. Breaker you, Know I'm johnny's a two.

(02:30:48):
Professionals i'm sure he's you, know he's, sick sick about.

Speaker 1 (02:30:52):
That but.

Speaker 12 (02:30:55):
You, KNOW i threw a BALL i thought was going
to get hit by the, wind and it was for
your Over, Roman SO i gotta make that.

Speaker 14 (02:31:02):
Throw but you, know we have our meetings every.

Speaker 12 (02:31:07):
Week we have other opportunities outside of the facility and
look forward to seeing all the boys there.

Speaker 9 (02:31:14):
In breaker, Outbreaker i'll take a throw Another ryan.

Speaker 11 (02:31:18):
T so the guy's not showing up or a guy
not showing. Up That's we're pretty unanimous and figuring that
that's the extra, stuff the stuff at, night the outside
of the, facility extra effort type of, commitment which is
not apparently all.

Speaker 2 (02:31:38):
There, no, No and we got rid Of George pickens
because he was a head. Case and we've got a
couple of head. Cases SO i don't, know maybe it
was good that we got rid of it because it
would have been way more. CRAZY i don't, know feels
like we messed up on that, one since you, know
nobody's actually fallen in life, here like you, know this

(02:32:01):
is not exactly teams The seal team six of.

Speaker 3 (02:32:05):
Discipline you, know what was actually producing is the bigger, issue.

Speaker 13 (02:32:10):
You.

Speaker 11 (02:32:10):
KNOW i think at least gave you some pretty good games.
Sometimes yeah, RIGHT i haven't had one of those in a. While,
amazingly there remains a great deal to play for for The,
steelers including a division. Championship that fight commences in earnest
This sunday In.

Speaker 3 (02:32:27):
Baltimore we control our.

Speaker 14 (02:32:31):
Destiny we got to.

Speaker 12 (02:32:31):
Win we got three division, games two of them Versus
baltimore next week and the last week of the. Season
so it's a tough place to play and played there
before during THE covid season until you got a great
fan base and be loud and, rocking and we got
to bring bring the right.

Speaker 2 (02:32:52):
MINDSET i just hope everybody for The ravens is healthy
because anytime that we play a team that has crucial
in we stink to join. Up it's, like you, KNOW
i equated it to the three to one lead in
it's the most dangerous lead in hockey for The steelers
to face.

Speaker 3 (02:33:09):
Any team missing key.

Speaker 11 (02:33:10):
Components yeah that uh, Now buffalo reacted to that in
advance and just threw it sideways and. Quickly Josh allen
did nothing of a superman nature other than run out
of a few sacks and then late in.

Speaker 3 (02:33:28):
Game he's gonna. Die he just ran the. Ball he
has no fear that. Dude, SERIOUSLY i was, thinking, like
is he gonna make it through this? Game the amount
of times.

Speaker 19 (02:33:36):
Hit when he, slid he got. Hit Tom Patrick queen
should have Got there was no flag.

Speaker 3 (02:33:41):
Either it was. Crazy probably should have got one for.

Speaker 11 (02:33:43):
That buffalo's ability to run the ball without either of
its starting tackles is Staggering.

Speaker 2 (02:33:48):
Steelers with an all time. Stinker yesterday they booed. Renegade
they flip and booed. Renegade Fire Mike, tomlin chance make
it onto the audio of THE cbs broadcast.

Speaker 3 (02:34:00):
Punt on first. Down that's a chant that was going
around my.

Speaker 2 (02:34:03):
Section, yeah it was not exactly the end of The
thanksgiving holiday That steeler fans were hoping. For they do
get to go To baltimore and make it all, right
but The ravens themselves are looking to get right and
are probably looking at this absolute mess of A steelers
team as a get right game for, them.

Speaker 3 (02:34:26):
Probably thinking back to Last january and thinking yet same.

Speaker 2 (02:34:29):
Bunch, yeah, well that's what All steeler fans are, thinking
and that's why they're sick and tired of all of.

Speaker 11 (02:34:35):
This they've seen this fish too many. TIMES i talked
To Norm mardini last. Night he said he's sick and
tired of being sick and.

Speaker 3 (02:34:42):
Tired, now.

Speaker 9 (02:34:44):
This, game to me feels like whoever loses this, game
the bottom completely falls out and they collapse entirely and
fire their. Coach Is harbaugh getting this. Much harbaugh has
been Where Mike tomlin is right. Now and then Sal
it saved his.

Speaker 2 (02:35:01):
Job there was a, TIME i want to say it
was pre covid that he was headed down the second
half of the season and he was sure to get
fired and turned the team around and they made the
postseason AND i think made a small run in that.

Speaker 3 (02:35:16):
Postseason, YEAH i can't remember what year that, was BUT
i definitely remember.

Speaker 14 (02:35:20):
He was getting.

Speaker 3 (02:35:21):
Gas he was, gone and they turned it.

Speaker 2 (02:35:23):
Around lamar's rookie, year Right so There blaco started and
then they Benched, flacco brought In.

Speaker 3 (02:35:29):
Lamar what years that or twenty?

Speaker 2 (02:35:32):
Eighteen, okay need a, Quarterback you do need a, quarterback
And i'm not sure The steelers have one right. Now All,
right a quick break and we'll come right back more
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Speaker 3 (02:35:54):
Way It's Power Hour Steeler talk on THE Dd.

Speaker 2 (02:36:00):
Show steeler's not a whole lot of power yesterday in
that twenty sixty seven loss to The.

Speaker 3 (02:36:05):
Bills you, know every time we Have Rob king in here.

Speaker 2 (02:36:07):
For The Power hour the day after a, GAME i
like to take one segment and just focus on a
call from the post game on The Steelers audio network
that is helmed by our Own Mike. Pursuita of, course
he is the as he likes to, say bread in
The steelers sandwich of that, broadcast both the pre and
postgame host.

Speaker 3 (02:36:25):
The bleep sandwich, less no question about. That this is
from the everybody the post.

Speaker 22 (02:36:32):
Game i'm gonna make the short.

Speaker 23 (02:36:33):
Street i'm a first time. CALLER i just don't see
any heart In Coach tomlin. ANYMORE i don't know if
it's eighteen, YEARS i don't know if there's something going
on behind the. SCENES i just don't see the heart
THAT i did ten fifteen years.

Speaker 7 (02:36:48):
AGO i Just.

Speaker 23 (02:36:51):
I'm at a lot of words Because i've defended him
all my adult life.

Speaker 2 (02:36:56):
AND i just can't do it.

Speaker 23 (02:36:57):
ANYMORE i think we need to clean, house and, honestly let's.
Start Will, Howard I'm i'm a fan of the. Fan
let's go all, right take care of.

Speaker 3 (02:37:08):
Guys, Okay schrodinger's Quarterback Will. Howard that.

Speaker 11 (02:37:12):
One there was about five Fire tomlins last, night but that,
one that one made the cut here because of The
Will howard.

Speaker 3 (02:37:20):
Reference all, right.

Speaker 11 (02:37:21):
SO i did like did he also talked about it
was an observation you know by. Heart, yeah it wasn't
the typical narratives that everybody clings to THAT i think
failed to capture the spirit of.

Speaker 8 (02:37:37):
This.

Speaker 2 (02:37:37):
NO i, mean, rob do you do you glean anything
From Mike tomlin's body language or lack.

Speaker 3 (02:37:44):
Thereof, no.

Speaker 7 (02:37:48):
Not trying to read.

Speaker 3 (02:37:49):
That i'm not trying to read the body language tea,
leaves you. KNOW i just know that this is the
kind of.

Speaker 9 (02:37:54):
Game and, look you know The bill has had him
in a couple of weeks ago against The, Dolphins stauphin
just ran all over. Him it's you, know if you're
to the fan, base that's, troubling like you're looking for. Response,
well they didn't respond Against Green. Bay they didn't respond
against The. Bills they did respond against The. Bears they
made that a game and even had a chance to
tie it. LATE i think THAT'S i think when a

(02:38:15):
team starts rolling at you and and there is no,
response it looks like you don't.

Speaker 3 (02:38:22):
Care you know WHAT i, mean that's what it looks.

Speaker 8 (02:38:24):
Like you.

Speaker 9 (02:38:24):
Don't you go three and, out you turn it, over
you go out on, defense you give them a four
team play.

Speaker 3 (02:38:28):
Drive, well well that's and then that's what games it looks.
Like that's what it looks.

Speaker 2 (02:38:32):
Like postgame, comments you, KNOW i Know kaboli wrote about
this that his lack of venom in response to his
team's performance indicated a missed opportunity for him to re
establish that that's not.

Speaker 3 (02:38:46):
OKAY i don't know how you Watch steelers.

Speaker 2 (02:38:47):
Football as long as Most steelers fans have and and
Question Mike tomlins want to.

Speaker 3 (02:38:53):
WIN i don't think that's ever in.

Speaker 2 (02:38:55):
Question BUT i do think there are lots of other
questions to be answered for coach T And i'll tell
you what.

Speaker 3 (02:39:01):
Too like you, know everybody loves to, see you, know the.

Speaker 9 (02:39:06):
The manager who throws the bats out into the field
because he's mad about his team and calling guys. Out
but you know, what people don't want to play for
a guy like.

Speaker 3 (02:39:13):
That you, know you know What i'm. Saying you don't
want to play for guy that's calling, out calling you.

Speaker 9 (02:39:19):
Out, well you, know, hey we'd have been better if
so and, so it made a couple of tackles out.
THERE i, mean you, know just and yelling and. Screaming you,
Know Chuck nole was a was a big believer that you,
know you didn't have to yell and. Scream the motivation
comes from, within and these guys are all you. Don't
you don't get to this level unless you're self motivated
and the biggest MOTIVATION i can ONLY i could speak for.

(02:39:40):
Myself you, know getting, benched, right you get, Benched you're,
like wait a, minute, now hang on a. Second my
motivation level is has been. Rekindled if you need that
lack of playing, time that's a that's a. MOTIVATOR i
don't think yelling and screaming that that only. LASTS i, mean,
Listen i've seen boxers get themselves all pumped up in
the corner and stuff and then One Mike, tyson you,

(02:40:00):
know blow and they're waking up in their locker room
fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:40:03):
Later you know the.

Speaker 19 (02:40:04):
DRESS i have a, counterpoint, though like isn't Don't sometimes
you want your dad to get mad at, you like
you've screwed.

Speaker 3 (02:40:10):
Up you don't want him to just skate, By LIKE
i screwed. UP i want someone to yell at, me.

Speaker 2 (02:40:14):
LIKE i kind of feel like that's where That, yeah
but there's also public and. Pride that's, true you know
WHAT i. MEAN i, mean like you don't need to criticize. Them,
yeah you don't need to criticize your team in. Public you,
Know Chuck, nole like you, said he didn't have to.
Yell he could just insult you so so, incisively with
such razor sharp insight that it would send you into

(02:40:37):
therapy when you were done. Playing but If Terry bradshaw
won't come back To pittsburgh because of how Mean Chuck noles.

Speaker 6 (02:40:44):
To, him, true does the fact That Aaron rodgers feels
like he needs to criticize in public or even A.

Speaker 3 (02:40:50):
Tj watt indicate That tomlin isn't doing it in? PRIVATE
i don't.

Speaker 9 (02:40:54):
KNOW i Think Aaron rodgers Is aaron rodds, point you
know WHAT i. MEAN i, mean it is a good,
question BUT i Think Aaron rodgers Is Aaron. Rodger you,
know He's he's a leader in a lot of different.
Ways LIKE i was talking To James, Pierre i'm, like hey,
man you know, nice what a nice season you've. HAD i,
mean remember he was on the practice, squad you, know

(02:41:15):
AND i was, like you, know is there anything that
kind of kept you? Going and he's like. Yeah Aaron
rodgers is, like, HEY i see you forty. TWO i
see what you're doing over. There and he was, like,
yeah that that kind of gave me like some. Pep
AND i THINK i Think Aaron rodgers can have that.
Effect you, know If Aaron rodgers calls you. Out, now
if it keeps happening and there's no, response then it
becomes an. Issue but he has the cachet to either

(02:41:39):
lift the guy up or to call him.

Speaker 3 (02:41:40):
OUT i, mean he's got.

Speaker 9 (02:41:41):
That you. Know you don't get. That if that's a rookie,
quarterback someone's gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:41:47):
Say shut, up you.

Speaker 9 (02:41:49):
Know but if it's a guy who's going to The
hall Of fame and who's really well liked and really
well respected by his, teammates that's when.

Speaker 12 (02:41:57):
You can do.

Speaker 3 (02:41:58):
That he can he can do.

Speaker 11 (02:41:59):
That mike on a show that we got real sick
of The, hey that's, okay we'll go in the next
floor in a.

Speaker 3 (02:42:05):
Row we're good.

Speaker 2 (02:42:06):
Everything i'd rather hear What aaron had to say last. Night,
YEAH i have no problem with What Aaron rodgers. Said
BUT i want to get back to the original point,
though and the reason that you really wanted to use
that call the idea That Will howard is an.

Speaker 11 (02:42:19):
Option, yeah he's just not. Ready he got no preseason.
Time he hasn't done this at this. Level he's running
the other team's plays in.

Speaker 3 (02:42:26):
Practice.

Speaker 11 (02:42:27):
Now you, know if something should happen To Aaron rodgers
And Mason rudolph winds up starting, again then he's one
heart beat away from the, presidency and then Why.

Speaker 3 (02:42:37):
Scott Skyler thompson have been elevated to that. Role he'sa on.
Ir that was for.

Speaker 2 (02:42:42):
GOOD i didn't realize he was out for the season with. That,
okay that's. Why but would he have been if he was?
HEALTHY i would, assume all, Right, well that's an indictment
Of Will.

Speaker 3 (02:42:54):
Howard it's my.

Speaker 11 (02:42:54):
Point it's JUST i, mean it's it's neither an indictment
or an. Endorsement he just he got hurt and missed
all the preseason. Games he hasn't taken a single. Snipe
Like Sunder standards got a lot of preseason, Snaps Will
howard hasn't taken a. Snap, well they talked about it
when the injury, happened, like this is a bummer for this.
Guy you know that he wasn't able to take because
that's what he's gonna play in the.

Speaker 19 (02:43:14):
PRESEASON i know it's a different, situation but Because Ben
roethlisberger obviously first round draft. Pick but When ben rookie
year gets plugged, in was everyone saying the same, thing
like he's not he didn't take enough, snaps he's not,
Ready like was the same narrative out there at that?

Speaker 3 (02:43:27):
Point was it An.

Speaker 9 (02:43:29):
Alan fanica y where they asked that long, mine aren't
you excited about seeing the?

Speaker 3 (02:43:34):
Rookie, No i'm not.

Speaker 9 (02:43:34):
EXCITED i WANT i want the guy that you know
we Signed Tommy maddix to lead us to.

Speaker 2 (02:43:38):
Victory, yes you. KNOW i remember that, well and that was.
Well it also caused a little bit of a rift
Between Big ben And. Red it took them a little
while to get over. That and then thirteen straight. WINS
i think they both were okay with it, eventually but.

Speaker 3 (02:43:55):
That was also very.

Speaker 11 (02:43:57):
Limited he was he was throwing the ball fifteen times a.
Game they were working half the.

Speaker 3 (02:44:01):
Field.

Speaker 11 (02:44:02):
Uh they they dubbed it, down bad choice of. Words
they simplified it Because roethlisberger was a. Rookie they knew
they had a great defense in a great running.

Speaker 2 (02:44:10):
Game, yeah none of those they, have, No yeah, right
thanks to The Tim bens And Jerry dlak of Course
Rob king for joining us here for the power hour
Of steeler. Talking now it's on To. Baltimore plus He's
Ben roethlisberger pick sixth. Round, yeah number eleven overall was
a number eleven little. Pedigree, uh if you can't Stop James,

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cook how are you gonna Stop Derrick.

Speaker 9 (02:44:34):
Henry, Well cook's the number two rusher in THE. Nfl
and they, did by the, way they did Stop Jonathan. Taylor,
yes it's, true but this is a team that wants
to run the. Football The builds are a team that
wants to run the. Football the culture a more balanced offensive.
Attack even With, taylor it's gonna be they're gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:44:54):
Have to come up with.

Speaker 9 (02:44:54):
SOMETHING i just If i'm If I'm Joey porter a,
little but that's a lot of grasping that If i'm
anybody in that secondary that has to wrap Up Dereck,
Henry i'm icing my shoulders now preemptively because it's gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:45:10):
Height they got to get him before he gets. Started,
yeah just something about. Him, Yeah Jonathan taylor still leading the?
League is that possible right?

Speaker 3 (02:45:19):
Now after? Yesterday? Really? Yeah cook is still behind? Him all? Right,
hey yeah we did it. Once i'm sure it'll be.
Great Thanks.

Speaker 9 (02:45:29):
Randy it's Still Steelers, Ravens Still Steelers. Ravens you can
get up for. It, oh in a big, way no
doubt about. It tomorrow on the, Show Charlie Batch jean's. Territor,
well at least they won't have any. Fire Mike tomlin
chance this. Weekend Billy gardell will join us tomorrow as.

Speaker 2 (02:45:45):
Well that'll be. UPLIFTING i don't, Know i'm looking for
a positive, Here. Mike, uh don't forget. That Steelers ravens
game means nine. Am we start our pregame With Tom
offerman And Matt williamson On sunday Before pursued The labs
And red crank up the network at eleven o'clock and
then it's our Buddy Rob king here on my, Left
Max starks And Missy matthews bringing You Steelers ravens This

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sunday ON.

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Finished you stay, Classy, pittsburgh don't touch.

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Speaker 3 (02:46:40):
Com Here's Tom.

Speaker 18 (02:46:41):
Offerman The steelers were blown out by The Bill sunday
At Akroshur stadium twenty six to, seven in a game
where they only gained one hundred and sixty six yards
of total offense and lost the time of possession battle
To buffalo forty one minutes and fifty nine seconds to
eighteen oh. One pittsburgh actually had the lead coming out
of halftime seven to, three and started the second half
of the game with the.

Speaker 3 (02:46:59):
Ball from the very first play of their.

Speaker 18 (02:47:01):
Possession bill's ed Rusher Joey bosa Demolished Aaron, rodgers knocking
the ball, loose And bill's Corner Christian benfort scooped it
up for the touchdown to give The bills the lead
and an all snowball downhill from there for The. Steelers
a massive factor in The bill's Success sunday was their rushing,
offense which was the best in the league heading into the,
game and it. Showed buffalo gashed The steelers for a
total of two hundred and forty nine yards on the

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ground and an average of four point nine yards per.
Carry leading that way was running Back James, cook who
had his league leading seven to one hundred yard rushing
performance on the season as he ran for one hundred
and forty four yards on thirty two carries against The,
steelers and The bills improved to six to one on
the year in the games That cook eclipsed the one
hundred yards on the. Ground The steelers now try to
bounce back from two straight losses as they traveled To

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baltimore to take on the six and Six ravens for
control of THE Afc north On Tom opferman with The
steelers report

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