December 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Gerry Dulac calls in to discuss the need for the Steelers to win tonight to keep their hold atop the AFC North.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Guaranteed human.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
DJ Watt out for tonight. They punctured as long with
a dry needle. That just sounds awful, brutal.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Somebody tap tapped the needle a little too hard with
the mallet a couple of times too.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Like acupuncture needles are supposed to be like some like
lily on the surface.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
That's what I thought, Like they don't go through the skin.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Well, maybe TJ Watts just so tough that they really
had to bring out like the John Henry sledgehammer and
be a steel driving man on that guy's spine.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's true. The only thing I could think of this
is what happens when you let Steely mcbeam dry needle people.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Guards.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, I got my sound.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Really puncture TJ's long with the.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That's no good. Hopefully he'll be back next week. That's
the early word is that it'll only be one week
that he will miss as a result of a punctured lung.
I'm telling you right now, I get dry needled in
the lung. I'm gonna take a few weeks off.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Okay, do you know there were Steelers fans be like
you could come back from that. Oh, he'll probably play
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
All the medical experts that just emerged over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Think of the back team that needed to be rinsed
that thing out. What's what's the band aid for your lung?
Do you reinflate along? I thought you were lung. Don't
you do a good job of inflating your own lungs?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I think you do.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think you have to be put on a ventilator
to make it happen now, and I think they had
to obviously repair the And does it make a noise
like a every time he breathes, he's like wheezing.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
He just sticks his finger in like bugs bunny and
then someone plays him like squeezebox.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Just got to go up to Perogi's plus and patch it.
It's a little bit of like culkame or something like that.
Just a little bit of potato and cheddar in there exactly.
That's what Pittsburger's do. That would be a really good dude.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I might do Parogis for dinner tonight, Parogi's and kill boss.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So that's a nice stick to your ribs. Meal. Potatoes
need to be involved at some point in the house.
Dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I think I did that for either no, the Christmas
ever New Year's Eve. I ordered a big thing of
pogis and like different.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Flavors, ordered them from from where.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Place in Coreopolis.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, I know what you're talking about. This is like
one of the last Parochi bastions. Yeah, are we are
we losing our parogi? I think I think there's only
like a couple of people that do it full tilt,
handmade and like we'll do catering stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know, there's a restaurant in Sharpsburg that just does
all honky food like this, and it's like a diner
and you go in and it's just all now like incredible.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Yes, yeah, it was Levive European kitchen, okay, like Haluski
and got Parogui's and got a bunch of stuff, got
all these different flavors and put it out and that was.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Like the dinner.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And then I think I made, like, you know, my
own sides.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And all that kind of stuff. But of course you did,
you know, Yeah, Jeff Concole with us this morning, mister Wednesday,
on a Monday, and I was asking Abby before you
got here, how did you handle Saturday?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Because I did the old I went to the Giant Eagle.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I went to Gian Eagle at two o'clock and it
was so crowded that I was like, I'm not doing this.
I'll just come back when it's when the snow has
started and everyone's home, because I'm not afraid to drive
a mile in the snow.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I lived. I don't want to brag, but I live
close to a shop.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Guys, I don't know if you know any exclusive zip code. Yeah,
So I went back after the snow started. Nobody there,
me and one guy, and there was absolutely nothing left
on the shelves. And I was thinking to myself, you know,
this is only a day.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
How do people not have a day's worth of stuff
in their house.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I'm such a hypocrite because I'm one of these people
that thinks like, why aren't people getting out more? And
we need to get out and socialize more and be
around tons of people. And then we went to the
mall on Friday and I was like, we need a
new pandemic. There can't there's no parking spots here. It
has to go away. There's it was so crowded and
at first you're like good economic activity, and then you go.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Try to get a table at a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
They're like it's an hour and forty five minute wait,
and you're like, get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well you did go in what is peak Christmas shop? Yeah,
I know, I know it was.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
And we had a busy weekend to begin with, like
we had to. We were hosting a neighborhood Christmas party,
a rich night on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Night of the night of like, well, I'm gonna call
it at snowstorm.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So we have a We had that going on, thirty
five people coming over to our house.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Our house cannot hold thirty five people.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
We needed to, like, you know, structurally reinforce the floor
joists in case everybody happened to jump at the same
time and we're afraid the house would like tell or
seven and just collapse in ots. Do not playhouse of pain,
do not play house humping around. But on top of that,
we'll get to that in a second. That morning, we
had to wake up at seven o'clock and go to
an all day youth wrestling tournament that lasted for seven
(05:15):
and a half hours, which, if there's whatever the next
level of a super Spreader event is a youth wrestling
tournament in Mount Lebanon is like an ultramega wuhan wet market.
Just people kids swiping their nose and then grabbing your kids,
and kids walking into a bathroom likely urinating on their
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shoes and then coming out and then going on.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
The mats and everything like that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
The fact that everyone there doesn't have a new strain
of COVID forty eighth or whatever we're on at this point,
it's so it's absolutely astounding. And we were there for
six and a half hours. Six and a half hours.
My son had four matches. Oh, this is what kills me.
My brother does the same thing. He'll say, hey, your
nephew has two basketball games.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
One's at three and one's at seven thirty. And I'm like, well,
what are you doing between we just watched the other games.
I'm like, that's a six hour day, a long time plus. Okay,
out of the four matches, my son gets pinned in
three seconds in the first one, so nice start to
the day. He rallies back, he has two pins, you know,
ten seconds. Ten seconds, So now we're up to twenty
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four total seconds of matt time that I've seen. And
then the last match was like a minute so out of.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Six and a half hours, I watched my son wrestle
for maybe maybe a minute and forty five seconds total.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That was what are you just watching wrestling matches the
entire day.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I'm an assistant coach, so I have to I have
other things to do at least, so that was occupying
my time. But good lord, like that's when you have
something to do. At the end of the day. We
had grocery stuff to do. We had, you know, the
house to get ready and vacuuming to be done, toilets
to be wiped down that we hadn't wiped down in
six and a half months.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Douse, Your guests can't know, you, poob, No, they cannot
absolutely know.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Well, actually ended up working out because, you know, my
wife whenever we're having people over, gets mean.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
She gets mean to.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Us because and rightfully so, me and my two sons
are pretty much fully useless, you know, to help out,
Like we we don't get the level that she's going
for a lot of times, so we were not helpful.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
We're a lot of times just in the way.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So the fact that we were out somewhere for most
of the day actually helped the harmony of the house
for the most part, Like I literally as soon as
she said, like, you know, we're gonna host We're gonna
host this Christmas party. We're gonna have thirty five people
in our house. And I looked at her and I
was like, Okay, we're hosting it on Saturday. Should I
just get a motel for me and the boys for
the Thursday Friday before hats So we're just completely out.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Of your head so she can just clear the palate.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
So wait, was there any consideration to postpone the party
due to the weather. No, because the neighborhood party, we
can walk through yards, so nobody was gonna have a
tough timek tough time getting in air in anyway. And
actually that sort of made it nicer because you know,
you could you could wait. You sort of felt snowed in,
kind of a little cozy that way. But you know, again,
she's trying to do this elevated stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
She's in the.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Pinterest algorithm, so she you know, if a party was
left up to me, I would get a keg and
some popcorn and that would be it, and it would
be a bad party.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I don't know if that's gonna be a bad party.
But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It would not be an elevated party that you want
representing your family. My wife carries the flag for the
concoles and says, you're our guests, and you're we're gonna
treat you right. There was a big fight over she
was trying to make like whiskey ice cubes, like the
big why so she put some cranberries in the molds
and a little sprig of time in there. That's amazing,
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that's what everybody said. I thought it was the stupidest thing.
I was like, no one's even gonna notice this thing.
The amount of people that I made a glad, They're like,
what what is this in the glass?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Is there cranberries and a little sprig of time.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
It's just the nice touch that she I mean, she's
slaved over that. And I thought it was so silly
that I was like, no one ere gonna know. They's
gonna slug their whiskey and be with it. No got
so many, so many compliments, it was nice.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, I would expect, you know, nothing else from Jerry
to be thoughtful like that, and you to just poo
poo all the ideas and.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
He's in a colon thing. Nobody's gonna care. Everybody's gonna
get hammered.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Appreciate it, but so like but okay, so you had
to shovel a ton of snow to like.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
No, no, didn't shovel snow. Made all my neighbors sign
a waiver beforehand of no of legal dis legal absolving.
But my theory with snow when it comes down like that,
because I could shovel at five o'clock it was still snowing, Yeah,
that means I'm gonna have to be out there.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You know, it's a half hour later.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So I just let it go when I in my opinion,
fresh packed snow is less of a slip hazard than
if you shovel an ice on an asphalt driveway.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So I just let it ride and then I did it.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I did it the next The next day, in between
the wrestling tournament and the party, I had a birthday
party to take my son to.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
This is in the middle of the snow storm. Jees.
The birthday party is twenty five minutes away.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh and it's at a reserved It was at Cool Springs,
like the basketball thing. So I know, as someone who's
had to book a kid's winter birthday party. These people
probably showed up a couple hundred bucks. Weather report comes
in and now people were falling off. So I was like, listen,
if we can make it, we're gonna make it. So
we literally grabbed the four wheel drive. I had to
(10:21):
pick up another kid, and we went out there because
I was like, these people aren't gonna get their security
deposit back unless we get out there.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So we're skinting, like we were hitting some patches, doing
little backslide and tokyo drifting around Bethel Church Road and
everything like that, and so that was harrowing enough, and
then party went off.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It went great.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Nice thing about having a party of suburban neighborhood people
is that there's a squad to help you clean up
at the end of the night, Like at eleven fifteen
or whatever, when we wrapped up, everyone was just like,
give me a trash bag, give me some lyceolve, I'm
gonna wipe this thing down. And we were left it
was better than we found it, So it was really
nice that way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, and then you leave there, go back to the
neighborhood party and thirty five people were in your house
for how long two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, that's not bad. That's not bad. We moved.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It was a progressive party. We moved to one other.
There was a second location, so we traded over. So
it's like the late night you guys did we We
were the advertiser food house and uh and the other
person was like the kind of the drinks and cookie house.
And this is a big point of contention. So we
we got a honey baked ham. So we're trying to
idea thirty five adult party. I just want to point
this like.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
A honey baked like a honey baked ham. That makes
it that's elevated. Yes, yeah, honey bag.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Okay, Well, we never know how to order for people,
so like you know, and this this goes for everything,
Like if we're having seven people over, my wife will
be like, we need five pizzas and then you have
like sixty five slices of pizza that you can just
frisbee to the raccoons at the end of the night.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So we have thirty five.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
People, were like, I don't know how many how many
honey bake how many honey bake hams you think you
need for thirty five people.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I would say, two sounds like a lot. This was
a point of contention.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
We were like, do we get one and maybe alligator
armored a little bit, or we buying two honey baked hams, which,
by the way, are freaking expensive. The honey baked ham
is get like bitcoin, and then honey baked ham is
like the next the next level of currency that we're
gonna be trading. My mom and my wife got into
it and almost an argument over how many hams to get,
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and to the point where my mom was like, you
cannot get more than two hams. That's absolutely that is
fiscally irresponsible. Your children, they have college.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Funds to fund.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
You cannot be doing that, to the point where they
ended the conversation and my mom butt dialed me, left
me a message of a conversation she had with my dad.
She's like, I don't know what you just hear it
in the background. I don't even know what they're doing.
They're gonna get two honey baked hams. Do you think
it was a butt dial or was it a mom
moved No, my mom is I don't know how you're
still dialing. I don't know how you're still dialing people
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with your butt on this. In the era of touchscreens,
she somehow manages to do it. But that was this
is a big, big issue. So we went with one
ham and guess what we had, like like three or
is a ham left over? So if anybody wants to
come over and have sandwiches, please, we need to get
rid of this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Alas see you bring in any ham.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I always think people eat are going to eat more
than they actually do. I'm always preparing for like, well,
everyone's gonna come and pig out, yeah, and not remembering
that most times when I go to a party, I'll
eat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I don't usually sit down and gorge myself.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And most people are like, well, I'm having cocktails and
I'm just gonna nibble alcohol.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
The same way when we buy alcohol, we're like, okay,
we got thirty five people. Each person's gonna drink seven
to twelve beers. Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Now meanwhile, something they have like one Michelo ultra and
then they're like, my gurd is kind of flaring up.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So yeah, never you always are. So again, if anybody's supposed.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
To have a wet bring it down the Steelers game
to night, We'll just have a rager of Heinekens.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Sounds like you got a great tailgate ready to go,
but don't don't sell the short the uh, get a
cake and popcorn, because that, to me is one hell
of a fun party.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
See.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
To me, people just want to get together, and I
think that the Pinterest thing actually puts the hurdle too high,
and everyone's just like, I don't want to have people
over because I don't want to paint my baseboards so
that you know, it can be instagrammable, or people judge
me when they come in the house. I think, and
this is I think a guy's perspective on this. People
enjoy the warmth more than the decor, like the fellowship
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more so than anything else, and that's what brings the
people to the party.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But it's a level of courtesy.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I think that if you're really showing respect for your guests,
you're putting those nice little touches.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You're not doing the scorekeeping when you go to your
neighbor's house for stuff like this.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But your wife is.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Possibly yeah, so Jerry is like, we are getting a
good score for this, whether you said you want it
or not. She was over preparing. She had that in mind,
so that seems to me to be very much. That's
why I'm saying keg and popcorn sounds great. And my
Instagram score for the neighborhood that'd be very low, very low.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
No one would even whip their phone out in a
nice time, like we're sad for him. You can't have
nice yes, right, that is such a bachelor.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But Abby, I know that you you did a little
Christmas cookie in on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
My aunt has started this tradition. It's adorable where every
year and it started off as this like small little
party and now it's expanded to like pretty much the
whole family where we do like a sugar cookie royal
icing cookie decorating party.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
This sounds like that the Tinsel Twinkle Jingle Town.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
But I was wondering if you two were coming to
the Green Pine Grove town Square Christmas Festival of Lights
Christmas Tree Decorating Contest FINALI scholet.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It when I say royal icing.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The reason why I say that is because I'm trying to.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Not give it prestige.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It's because royal icing means the kind of that really flat,
colorful icing when you see like a decorated cookie that
like almost looks like fonded.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It looks like like like paint, like smiley smiley cookie.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's a little bit more of like
based like corn syrup icing that's like flat and like
it's really like, yeah, it looks like a cartoon almost.
So we weren't We're not making like chocolate, you know,
like peppermint cookies or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
This is just sugar cookies art on top.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And so she puts us in teams and then you
had to like break off into teams.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
This is a competition, a competition, and I won last.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Year and I was back to Okay, so how do
you win? Is it there's a vote? There's a vote, okay,
based on why what's the judging criteria? Creativity presentation?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
And so Edie and I were on a team, My
daughter and I were on a team. My mom and
dad were on a team. My cousin and his husband
were on a team. Like everybody's broken into like you know,
their groups.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Did anyone buffet like apps fell apart in the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh, my dad and mom, Like I can't believe they're
still married after like what happened to their drink?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And camer Yeah, cockdales and yeah on a cookie.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But I made I made a little gnome that really
cinched the deal. But my daughter also like we came correct,
and she made one that was a Christmas sweater that said.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Who farted on it? And I think killer. We unanimously
won the vote.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Everyone voted for us, and so we won a flower
pot that was a shrunken head and that was our
big wow.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Nothing says Christmas like a shrunken hair exactly, so we
failed it. Billy Gardell will be joining us for the
nine o'clock hour today instead of tomorrow because tomorrow will
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From the Bridgeville Appliance Weather Center, known for exceptional sports.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
There was so much to talk about from yesterday in
the NFL and around the NFL, we didn't talk about
the Penguins collapse once yet both against the Utah Mammoths
and the Sharks. Five to one lead then a three
to zero lead. You're really good at taking the reservation.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You're just not holding the lead.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yeah, the Utah thing. Four goals allowed in a five
minute and fifty nine second span of the third period,
three to nothing lead became a four to three deficit.
At least they battled back and got it to overtime.
They lost again, which they lost the first shot. It
was like ten seconds in overtime.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Can we bring like Eric Christiansen back or somebody who
was actually good at the shootout?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
And this in the wake of on Saturday, uh allowing
four in ten minutes and forty nine seconds of the
third period, a five to one lead between a five
to five tie, and they lost that in overtime.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Did you hear the mashup of the Sharks played by
play guy on each goal? It's five to one right now,
and here's the goal to make it five to two.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Scor Sharks score five three five four gone online five
five loads up.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
I mean, guys, get a little excited for December hockey game.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But it was historic though, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You're beating the Penguins, not the Gretzky Oilers.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
They were five, they were winning five to one with
a twelve there's twelve and a half minutes, like I
should be able to get that one home. I don't
even know who to blame everybody, Yeah, I guess, but
a crazy weekend there. Then you had the Heisman Trophy
awarded to Jacob's guy this weekend, Fernando Alezuela congratulating.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So close. Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I don't know if you guys saw the the really
great post by Adidas. He just signed his Adidas deal.
His name is spelled h i zmy and do o
z a. Well sorry, Mendoza Emi and do o z a. Yeah,
And so they put in he is Mendoza.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He's Mendoza. Heis Mendoza.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
That's pretty cool. It reads, you know, two ways. He
is Mendoza, heights mean Dooza. It's it's really awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Then you had that jackass from Vanderbilt all weekend beyond.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I've never seen anybody go back.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'm like a guy that you're kind to rooting four
to oh, we all universally hate him.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It took like three weeks, No, just the one in
between last weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, now, when his mom was like torking at the game,
it was kind of like, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Is this fly? If you saw the footage of him
like a New York City club.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Oh yeah, he's holding up that Indiana's with the signs
that said f Indiana and they were throwing on middle fingers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, dude, classic back.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He's a total He's like right out of the school
of Johnny Manziel.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
What as were pumping college football's tires a little bit.
Navy beats Army seventeen sixteen Saturday.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You were there for that. I was there for that.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
So we're a couple of guys from Mount Lebanon playing
for the midshipman Alex Tesca and Eli Heidenreich. All they did.
Tesca ran nine times for fifty yards. Heisen Reich had
five carries for twenty eight yards. He also caught what
turned out to be the game winning touchdown pass fourth
and goal from the Army eight was six thirty seven
(21:59):
left in regular Navy is down sixteen to ten, so
I was thinking, at least kick a field goal, try
to get a stop, and then try to get a
field goal or a touchdown. Navy said, no, no, if that,
we're going for the gold right now. Hide and Wright
catches nate yard touchdown pass part of a six reception
seventy two yard day.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Through the air.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
And then the last time Navy had the ball, fourth
and one from the Army forty one with a buck
fifty four left. Now they're only up one point. You
don't get this. Army has to go about twenty five
yards to kick a field goal and win the game. No,
Navy said, We'll just give it to Alex Tesca and
he's going to gain two yards and get the first
down that puts the game away, anchors away, Baby, don't
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give up the ship.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Good deal.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
We'll talk a little stillers are we at a time?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oliver hazard Perry said that don't give up the ship
they have.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Everybody has those flags when they tailgate. They're so cool.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, it's a pretty cool believe it's from the War
of eighteen twelve, famous naval battle.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, we made my dad a flag for his birthday
one year and the same font that said effort let
him have the ship.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Because he.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
That seems counter to what they're like.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Because he loved that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know, he was a Navy guy and he'd always
put he'd always if we had a party that don't
give up the ship, thing would be flying, you know.
So we had one that I was said, let him
have the ship. It's not worth it.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
It was not Oliver Hazard Perry, it was Captain James Lawrence.
During eighteen twelve. It became iconic when Oliver Hazard Perry
flew the flag based on his works.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Oh okay, there we go.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
And they're still flying it today. They are Steelers better
not give up the ship tonight against the Dolphins Monday
Night Football No TJ. Watt, Although according to Tom Pelsero,
the Steelers are hopeful that what will only miss one game.
Derek Harmon was just limited in practice on Saturday, so
I'm guessing he's not going to play either against the
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team that has run the crap out of the ball
for four consecutive weeks. The Dolphins, all of a sudden,
are reborn after their one and five start. Steelers are
in the middle of the NFL stretch run. These games
that they're playing tonight, the games to come the one
(24:23):
they played December seventh in Baltimore. Well, these are the
type of games that Aaron Rodgers came here to play.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Yeah, I mean have been a couple of years since
I played in you know, meaningful games in December, So
that's why we play. Obviously, you play to win championships.
You got to be in position and playing the right
way late in the season. So it's good to be
a part of a big time game last Sunday, and
the rest of these will be the same.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Quite a soundtrack there, Well, what a vibe going on?
A little shaggy going on in the background. Is that
in Chili's or.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
It was in the luck. It did not give me
a good feeling. It shouldn't have about the way they
were preparing defensively. You mentioned no watt, probably no harm
in Miami can really run the ball. Steelers have a
hard time with run defense, but a couple of things
working in their favor heading into tonight. Pittsburgh is on
twenty two consecutive home games on Monday Night football. Wow,
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what at that's a significant streak. Miami is also with
Tua at quarterback one in seven when the temperature is
below forty six degrees. The one win was a couple
sundays ago against the Jets, who stuck are horrible, terrible,
and the temperature was forty three degrees so barely snuck
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under the forty six degree line of demarcation. So basically,
when it's as cold as it's going to be tonight,
Toua is oh for his life. So load up on
the run, and load up on the run to a
beat you and maybe count on a defensive mindset that
has shown up lad in games. The Steelers have been
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abysmal based on what they were expecting of themselves defensively,
but the four and one in safe situations, having closed
out the Jets, the Patriots, the Vikings, and the Ravens.
They gave up the ship at the end of the
Cincinnati game in Cincinnati, So but four and one, And
even if they're having a hard time during a game,
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they've they've had a habit of rising to occasions that
defensive coordinator Tara Austin beliefs they should rise up for
and handle.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
I just think it's the mentality of our players. We
all know it's a sixty minute game. We know things
don't always go the way you won them. The way
you draw them up, the way you talk about them
in practice. But then if you play hard and you
do things right, you know, if you could play really
well in crunch time, you'll have an opportunity to win
the game. And that's really what our guys do. You know,
our guys don't. They don't fear those situations. They don't
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fear those types, you know, times in the game when
the pressures the most. And I think that's why we've
been able to be successful in some of those situations.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Big one, it's not a mathematical elimination game, but kind
of might as well be, because if you look at
the wild card standings and again, you know, you beat
the Ravens at the end of the year here and
that's going to be highly impactful, But do you really
want to have to count on that?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, we could have used the Bengals beating the Ravens
and the Bills not having a massive comeback against the
Patriots yesterday.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
The Texans right now are the third wild card and
nine and five, and they have a better conference record
than the Steelers at seven and six, So starting to
look like division title or bust.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Did you see Josh Allllen thrown up on the sidelines
of the game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I did not, and he says he does it every game.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Oh yeah, No, I just do not have a game
sometimes you you know, the cameras catch me and sometimes
I know, usually I'll get it all out before the game.
Speaker 12 (27:59):
That's I mean, if they don't catch it every game,
I don't know, Like it basically happens every game. I
don't know why I do it. It just happens. And
do it to nothing else but other than just like
a weird feeling, just got to.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Get it out. He throws up every game. That's a
weird thing.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
What a great crutch to have if you're nervous beforehand,
you just react and then you're like.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
All right, I'm good. I mean that would be great.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
If it went away with your throw up, if your
nerves went away. Yeah, if you just immediately calm down
with whatever in endorphin rush that that gets you rally.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
They all right, well, we'll talk to Jerry do like
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
We talked a lot about what they need to do
against the Dolphins defensively to defend against Tua and a chain,
but what should they do against this Dolphins defense tonight
depends how they play.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
When I watched Miami, they played a lot of single
high because the Jets think and they had a guy
that never heard of playing quarterback, so they just loaded
up against New York's run nine man boxes. And if
my he plays cover two, you gotta run the ball.
If Miami does not play cover two, you've got to
attack those one on ones, just like the Ravens game.
And hopefully DK Metcalfe Aaron Rodgers have it going on again.
(29:10):
Hopefully Feeling and Vaaldas Scantling are more impactful from a
statistical standpoint. The Steelers are kind of built to take
what they're given. I know there's been a lot of
talk about identity and what do they do well, what
they don't do well. They try to take the path
of least resistance and exploit the defense where it's exploitable.
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That's what they got to do.
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Jerry Dulac from the Postcasette and Steelers Audio Network joining us.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Good morning, Jared, How are.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
You, Rando? I'm fine, Good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Hope you're doing well, brother, Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Same.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Have you learned anything new about the incident that punctured TJ.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Watts Lung? Who was doing that? Is it is?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Like?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Is it team affiliated? Was it somebody they bring in
and the subcontract or something? How did that all go down?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Well, if it happened at the facility, whether it appears
to be the outside people aren't brought in, I think
I think maybe on it cage and maybe a pyropractor
comes in.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But in terms of I know they've had massage therapists
to come in that weren't implied by the.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Team, right and and and sometimes that causes a problem,
not that kind of problem, but just maybe whether he
should be you know, you know, I don't know if you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Know, there's someone there to do massages that the team
pays for, and sometimes they bring someone else in.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
That's when the Patriots were into Robert specific.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Retinue of.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Any any type of treatments such as what we're referring
to here. If if a player wants to do that,
they have to do that. I mean they you know,
if they want someone else to do it, they obviously
have to go outside the building because then it becomes
legal issues as to how the guy was injured or
you know, whatever happens. Like in this case, something like
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that happens. So because it happened at the facility, I
only have to assume that it was somebody, you know,
a train there's someone's part of the train staff or whatnot.
And then of course, when that happened and he was
experiencing problems, he checked with the doctors, and doctors immediately
sent him to the hospital excuse me, on Wednesday, and
of course he remained there until Thursday. And you know,
(32:15):
so I know this from just kind of asking around
that as bad as it sounds, it's not as bad
as it sounds. And so I expect TJ. Watt to
play again, and maybe sooner than people think.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, that is just crazy to me in saying that
he'd be able to bounce back that quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
But I'm glad to hear it, no doubt about that.
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
On the injury front, we have we gleaned anything more
about Derek Harmon. Is it his lack of participation tell
us all we need to know practice wise about whether
he plays tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Yeah, usually that's the case. You know, they were certainly
hoping to get him back. I know he was. He
was hopeful. You know, his type of injury is usually
two to four weeks, so it's been two. You know.
You could spend the numbers what it's like with him
and without him, and they could be coincidence or it
could be telling. But one thing's for sure. What hurts
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when he's not there, not only just not having him.
Then all of a sudden, your rotational depth just isn't
as good. So instead of why a black, say, coming
a little bit more off the bench in a rotational system,
now he's having to play more. And now the trickle
down is that the next person who comes in isn't
as good as maybe why a Black would have been
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off the bench. And so that seems to be because
it's not exactly like they're loaded with talent on the
front line. It's not like they go six and seven deep.
So when you miss, you know, if not your key guy,
certainly one of your key guys along with Cam, then yeah,
it can't it can't help.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
So tonight, given how the last game against the Ravens
went where it was widely basically assume that the reason
Aaron Rodgers had such a prolific day was that he
had scanting and feeling out there to balance DK and
take some attention away.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Will both of those guys get a helmet tonight?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Yeah, I've been told that that's the plan. They're going
to go the same way. I don't know what effect.
You know, when you look at the numbers, obviously they
didn't have a big impact. Uh uh. You know, Vela
Scantling had one target and it was on one of
those third and seven plays when he runs a five
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yard round, which is Gene Caryer's favorite playing.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Football short the stations that.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
But but feeling, I think you will see more involved
you know on the past that Aaron Rodgers had batted
back to him, it was going down the field of
feeling who was wide open. They just they felt that
was a touchdown. And I think you're going to see him, uh,
probably get more targets. You know, he got a crash
course last Friday that he played twenty five steps. Was
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really surprising to me because he did next to nothing
with the team and team girls on Thursday and Friday.
Though he got the big crash course and you know
they used them a lot. So I think you'll see
him get targeted a little bit more. But I believe
the plan is they're going to you know, it worked
for whatever reason, and they're not going to change anything up.
(35:29):
So I think you'll see at stay exactly to say.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
But what do you anticipate the balance of attack will
be run passed tonight for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Well, you know, the Dolphins defense has gotten a little
bit better, especially against the run. But you know, as
cold as it is, certainly Aaron Rodgers should be accustomed
to cold playing in Great Bay all those years. I
think it's it's just going to depend. I think, you know,
the running game hasn't exactly been sharp, and you know
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in the year, if the running game isn't sharp, then
your attack then is let's get the running game going.
This time of year when when you have to win,
it's like, let's do what we do that's going to
help us win the game. And so if that's throwing
the ball, they'll throw the ball. So I mean, it's
going to be cold. I don't think it's going to
be nasty with obviously not rain or snow or anything.
(36:20):
So I mean, I think, you know, it's kind of like, look,
we're going to do what we need to do. If
we're not running the ball well, we're not going to
try to run the ball well or vice versas. So
to me, what we saw last week I think is
something similar. Of course it depends on Miami plays, but
I think it's going to be the same type of
aggressive attack.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
How do you think Renegade's going to go over tonight
first home game since it was booed.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Let's just hope the timing is a little bit better
when they play at Randall. That was the problem last time. Yea,
you know, they stopped on fourth down, they're trailing, and
they're trying to generate enthusiasm and that crowd was in
no mood to be enthusiastic. Hustic, Yes, just the wrong way.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
DJ Watt out for tonight. They punctured as long with
a dry needle. That just sounds awful, brutal.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Somebody tap tapped the needle a little too hard with
the mallet a couple of times too.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Like acupuncture needles are supposed to be like some like
lily on the surface.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
That's what I thought, Like they don't go through the skin.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Well, maybe TJ Watts just so tough that they really
had to bring out like the John Henry sledgehammer and
be a steel driving man on that guy's spine.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's true. The only thing I could think of this
is what happens when you let Steely mcbeam dry needle people.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Guards.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, I got my sound.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
Brandy Bellman and the DV Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Really puncture TJ's long with the.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That's no good. Hopefully he'll be back next week. That's
the early word is that it'll only be one week
that he will miss as a result of a punctured lung.
I'm telling you right now, I get dry needled in
the lung. I'm gonna take a few weeks off.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Okay, do you know there were Steelers fans be like
you could come back from that. Oh, he'll probably play
on Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
All the medical experts that just emerged over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Think of the back team that needed to be rinsed
that thing out. What's what's the band aid for your lung?
Do you reinflate along? I thought you were lung. Don't
you do a good job of inflating your own lungs?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I think you do.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think you have to be put on a ventilator
to make it happen now, and I think they had
to obviously repair the And does it make a noise
like a every time he breathes, he's like wheezing.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
He just sticks his finger in like bugs bunny and
then someone plays him like squeezebox.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Just got to go up to Perogi's plus and patch it.
It's a little bit of like culkame or something like that.
Just a little bit of potato and cheddar in there exactly.
That's what Pittsburger's do. That would be a really good dude.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I might do Parogis for dinner tonight, Parogi's and kill boss.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So that's a nice stick to your ribs. Meal. Potatoes
need to be involved at some point in the house.
Dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I think I did that for either no, the Christmas
ever New Year's Eve. I ordered a big thing of
pogis and like different.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Flavors, ordered them from from where.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Place in Coreopolis.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, I know what you're talking about. This is like
one of the last Parochi bastions. Yeah, are we are
we losing our parogi? I think I think there's only
like a couple of people that do it full tilt,
handmade and like we'll do catering stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
You know, there's a restaurant in Sharpsburg that just does
all honky food like this, and it's like a diner
and you go in and it's just all now like incredible.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Yes, yeah, it was Levive European kitchen, okay, like Haluski
and got Parogui's and got a bunch of stuff, got
all these different flavors and put it out and that was.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Like the dinner.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And then I think I made, like, you know, my
own sides.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And all that kind of stuff. But of course you did,
you know, Yeah, Jeff Concole with us this morning, mister Wednesday,
on a Monday, and I was asking Abby before you
got here, how did you handle Saturday?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Because I did the old I went to the Giant Eagle.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I went to Gian Eagle at two o'clock and it
was so crowded that I was like, I'm not doing this.
I'll just come back when it's when the snow has
started and everyone's home, because I'm not afraid to drive
a mile in the snow.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I lived. I don't want to brag, but I live
close to a shop.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Guys, I don't know if you know any exclusive zip code. Yeah,
So I went back after the snow started. Nobody there,
me and one guy, and there was absolutely nothing left
on the shelves. And I was thinking to myself, you know,
this is only a day.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
How do people not have a day's worth of stuff
in their house.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I'm such a hypocrite because I'm one of these people
that thinks like, why aren't people getting out more? And
we need to get out and socialize more and be
around tons of people. And then we went to the
mall on Friday and I was like, we need a
new pandemic. There can't there's no parking spots here. It
has to go away. There's it was so crowded and
at first you're like good economic activity, and then you go.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Try to get a table at a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
They're like it's an hour and forty five minute wait,
and you're like, get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well you did go in what is peak Christmas shop? Yeah,
I know, I know it was.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
And we had a busy weekend to begin with, like
we had to. We were hosting a neighborhood Christmas party,
a rich night on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Night of the night of like, well, I'm gonna call
it at snowstorm.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So we have a We had that going on, thirty
five people coming over to our house.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Our house cannot hold thirty five people.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
We needed to, like, you know, structurally reinforce the floor
joists in case everybody happened to jump at the same
time and we're afraid the house would like tell or
seven and just collapse in ots. Do not playhouse of pain,
do not play house humping around. But on top of that,
we'll get to that in a second. That morning, we
had to wake up at seven o'clock and go to
an all day youth wrestling tournament that lasted for seven
(05:15):
and a half hours, which, if there's whatever the next
level of a super Spreader event is a youth wrestling
tournament in Mount Lebanon is like an ultramega wuhan wet market.
Just people kids swiping their nose and then grabbing your kids,
and kids walking into a bathroom likely urinating on their
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shoes and then coming out and then going on.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
The mats and everything like that.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
The fact that everyone there doesn't have a new strain
of COVID forty eighth or whatever we're on at this point,
it's so it's absolutely astounding. And we were there for
six and a half hours. Six and a half hours.
My son had four matches. Oh, this is what kills me.
My brother does the same thing. He'll say, hey, your
nephew has two basketball games.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
One's at three and one's at seven thirty. And I'm like, well,
what are you doing between we just watched the other games.
I'm like, that's a six hour day, a long time plus. Okay,
out of the four matches, my son gets pinned in
three seconds in the first one, so nice start to
the day. He rallies back, he has two pins, you know,
ten seconds. Ten seconds, So now we're up to twenty
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four total seconds of matt time that I've seen. And
then the last match was like a minute so out of.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Six and a half hours, I watched my son wrestle
for maybe maybe a minute and forty five seconds total.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That was what are you just watching wrestling matches the
entire day.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I'm an assistant coach, so I have to I have
other things to do at least, so that was occupying
my time. But good lord, like that's when you have
something to do. At the end of the day. We
had grocery stuff to do. We had, you know, the
house to get ready and vacuuming to be done, toilets
to be wiped down that we hadn't wiped down in
six and a half months.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Douse, Your guests can't know, you, poob, No, they cannot
absolutely know.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Well, actually ended up working out because, you know, my
wife whenever we're having people over, gets mean.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
She gets mean to.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Us because and rightfully so, me and my two sons
are pretty much fully useless, you know, to help out,
Like we we don't get the level that she's going
for a lot of times, so we were not helpful.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
We're a lot of times just in the way.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So the fact that we were out somewhere for most
of the day actually helped the harmony of the house
for the most part, Like I literally as soon as
she said, like, you know, we're gonna host We're gonna
host this Christmas party. We're gonna have thirty five people
in our house. And I looked at her and I
was like, Okay, we're hosting it on Saturday. Should I
just get a motel for me and the boys for
the Thursday Friday before hats So we're just completely out.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Of your head so she can just clear the palate.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
So wait, was there any consideration to postpone the party
due to the weather. No, because the neighborhood party, we
can walk through yards, so nobody was gonna have a
tough timek tough time getting in air in anyway. And
actually that sort of made it nicer because you know,
you could you could wait. You sort of felt snowed in,
kind of a little cozy that way. But you know, again,
she's trying to do this elevated stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
She's in the.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Pinterest algorithm, so she you know, if a party was
left up to me, I would get a keg and
some popcorn and that would be it, and it would
be a bad party.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I don't know if that's gonna be a bad party.
But I know what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It would not be an elevated party that you want
representing your family. My wife carries the flag for the
concoles and says, you're our guests, and you're we're gonna
treat you right. There was a big fight over she
was trying to make like whiskey ice cubes, like the
big why so she put some cranberries in the molds
and a little sprig of time in there. That's amazing,
(08:39):
that's what everybody said. I thought it was the stupidest thing.
I was like, no one's even gonna notice this thing.
The amount of people that I made a glad, They're like,
what what is this in the glass?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Is there cranberries and a little sprig of time.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
It's just the nice touch that she I mean, she's
slaved over that. And I thought it was so silly
that I was like, no one ere gonna know. They's
gonna slug their whiskey and be with it. No got
so many, so many compliments, it was nice.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, I would expect, you know, nothing else from Jerry
to be thoughtful like that, and you to just poo
poo all the ideas and.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
He's in a colon thing. Nobody's gonna care. Everybody's gonna
get hammered.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Appreciate it, but so like but okay, so you had
to shovel a ton of snow to like.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
No, no, didn't shovel snow. Made all my neighbors sign
a waiver beforehand of no of legal dis legal absolving.
But my theory with snow when it comes down like that,
because I could shovel at five o'clock it was still snowing, Yeah,
that means I'm gonna have to be out there.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You know, it's a half hour later.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So I just let it go when I in my opinion,
fresh packed snow is less of a slip hazard than
if you shovel an ice on an asphalt driveway.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So I just let it ride and then I did it.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I did it the next The next day, in between
the wrestling tournament and the party, I had a birthday
party to take my son to.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
This is in the middle of the snow storm. Jees.
The birthday party is twenty five minutes away.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh and it's at a reserved It was at Cool Springs,
like the basketball thing. So I know, as someone who's
had to book a kid's winter birthday party. These people
probably showed up a couple hundred bucks. Weather report comes
in and now people were falling off. So I was like, listen,
if we can make it, we're gonna make it. So
we literally grabbed the four wheel drive. I had to
(10:21):
pick up another kid, and we went out there because
I was like, these people aren't gonna get their security
deposit back unless we get out there.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
So we're skinting, like we were hitting some patches, doing
little backslide and tokyo drifting around Bethel Church Road and
everything like that, and so that was harrowing enough, and
then party went off.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It went great.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Nice thing about having a party of suburban neighborhood people
is that there's a squad to help you clean up
at the end of the night, Like at eleven fifteen
or whatever, when we wrapped up, everyone was just like,
give me a trash bag, give me some lyceolve, I'm
gonna wipe this thing down. And we were left it
was better than we found it, So it was really
nice that way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, and then you leave there, go back to the
neighborhood party and thirty five people were in your house
for how long two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, that's not bad. That's not bad. We moved.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It was a progressive party. We moved to one other.
There was a second location, so we traded over. So
it's like the late night you guys did we We
were the advertiser food house and uh and the other
person was like the kind of the drinks and cookie house.
And this is a big point of contention. So we
we got a honey baked ham. So we're trying to
idea thirty five adult party. I just want to point
this like.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
A honey baked like a honey baked ham. That makes
it that's elevated. Yes, yeah, honey bag.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Okay, Well, we never know how to order for people,
so like you know, and this this goes for everything,
Like if we're having seven people over, my wife will
be like, we need five pizzas and then you have
like sixty five slices of pizza that you can just
frisbee to the raccoons at the end of the night.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So we have thirty five.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
People, were like, I don't know how many how many
honey bake how many honey bake hams you think you
need for thirty five people.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I would say, two sounds like a lot. This was
a point of contention.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
We were like, do we get one and maybe alligator
armored a little bit, or we buying two honey baked hams, which,
by the way, are freaking expensive. The honey baked ham
is get like bitcoin, and then honey baked ham is
like the next the next level of currency that we're
gonna be trading. My mom and my wife got into
it and almost an argument over how many hams to get,
(12:22):
and to the point where my mom was like, you
cannot get more than two hams. That's absolutely that is
fiscally irresponsible. Your children, they have college.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Funds to fund.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
You cannot be doing that, to the point where they
ended the conversation and my mom butt dialed me, left
me a message of a conversation she had with my dad.
She's like, I don't know what you just hear it
in the background. I don't even know what they're doing.
They're gonna get two honey baked hams. Do you think
it was a butt dial or was it a mom
moved No, my mom is I don't know how you're
still dialing. I don't know how you're still dialing people
(12:50):
with your butt on this. In the era of touchscreens,
she somehow manages to do it. But that was this
is a big, big issue. So we went with one
ham and guess what we had, like like three or
is a ham left over? So if anybody wants to
come over and have sandwiches, please, we need to get
rid of this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Alas see you bring in any ham.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I always think people eat are going to eat more
than they actually do. I'm always preparing for like, well,
everyone's gonna come and pig out, yeah, and not remembering
that most times when I go to a party, I'll
eat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I don't usually sit down and gorge myself.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And most people are like, well, I'm having cocktails and
I'm just gonna nibble alcohol.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
The same way when we buy alcohol, we're like, okay,
we got thirty five people. Each person's gonna drink seven
to twelve beers. Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Now meanwhile, something they have like one Michelo ultra and
then they're like, my gurd is kind of flaring up.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So yeah, never you always are. So again, if anybody's supposed.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
To have a wet bring it down the Steelers game
to night, We'll just have a rager of Heinekens.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Sounds like you got a great tailgate ready to go,
but don't don't sell the short the uh, get a
cake and popcorn, because that, to me is one hell
of a fun party.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
See.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
To me, people just want to get together, and I
think that the Pinterest thing actually puts the hurdle too high,
and everyone's just like, I don't want to have people
over because I don't want to paint my baseboards so
that you know, it can be instagrammable, or people judge
me when they come in the house. I think, and
this is I think a guy's perspective on this. People
enjoy the warmth more than the decor, like the fellowship
(14:23):
more so than anything else, and that's what brings the
people to the party.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But it's a level of courtesy.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I think that if you're really showing respect for your guests,
you're putting those nice little touches.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You're not doing the scorekeeping when you go to your
neighbor's house for stuff like this.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But your wife is.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Possibly yeah, so Jerry is like, we are getting a
good score for this, whether you said you want it
or not. She was over preparing. She had that in mind,
so that seems to me to be very much. That's
why I'm saying keg and popcorn sounds great. And my
Instagram score for the neighborhood that'd be very low, very low.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
No one would even whip their phone out in a
nice time, like we're sad for him. You can't have
nice yes, right, that is such a bachelor.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But Abby, I know that you you did a little
Christmas cookie in on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
My aunt has started this tradition. It's adorable where every
year and it started off as this like small little
party and now it's expanded to like pretty much the
whole family where we do like a sugar cookie royal
icing cookie decorating party.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
This sounds like that the Tinsel Twinkle Jingle Town.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
But I was wondering if you two were coming to
the Green Pine Grove town Square Christmas Festival of Lights
Christmas Tree Decorating Contest FINALI scholet.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It when I say royal icing.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The reason why I say that is because I'm trying to.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Not give it prestige.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It's because royal icing means the kind of that really flat,
colorful icing when you see like a decorated cookie that
like almost looks like fonded.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
It looks like like like paint, like smiley smiley cookie.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's a little bit more of like
based like corn syrup icing that's like flat and like
it's really like, yeah, it looks like a cartoon almost.
So we weren't We're not making like chocolate, you know,
like peppermint cookies or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
This is just sugar cookies art on top.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And so she puts us in teams and then you
had to like break off into teams.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
This is a competition, a competition, and I won last.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Year and I was back to Okay, so how do
you win? Is it there's a vote? There's a vote, okay,
based on why what's the judging criteria? Creativity presentation?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
And so Edie and I were on a team, My
daughter and I were on a team. My mom and
dad were on a team. My cousin and his husband
were on a team. Like everybody's broken into like you know,
their groups.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Did anyone buffet like apps fell apart in the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh, my dad and mom, Like I can't believe they're
still married after like what happened to their drink?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And camer Yeah, cockdales and yeah on a cookie.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But I made I made a little gnome that really
cinched the deal. But my daughter also like we came correct,
and she made one that was a Christmas sweater that said.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Who farted on it? And I think killer. We unanimously
won the vote.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Everyone voted for us, and so we won a flower
pot that was a shrunken head and that was our
big wow.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Nothing says Christmas like a shrunken hair exactly, so we
failed it. Billy Gardell will be joining us for the
nine o'clock hour today instead of tomorrow because tomorrow will
be doing a power hour post game wrap up of
tonight's Monday night football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and
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Speaker 9 (18:15):
From the Bridgeville Appliance Weather Center, known for exceptional sports.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
There was so much to talk about from yesterday in
the NFL and around the NFL, we didn't talk about
the Penguins collapse once yet both against the Utah Mammoths
and the Sharks. Five to one lead then a three
to zero lead. You're really good at taking the reservation.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You're just not holding the lead.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Yeah, the Utah thing. Four goals allowed in a five
minute and fifty nine second span of the third period,
three to nothing lead became a four to three deficit.
At least they battled back and got it to overtime.
They lost again, which they lost the first shot. It
was like ten seconds in overtime.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Can we bring like Eric Christiansen back or somebody who
was actually good at the shootout?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
And this in the wake of on Saturday, uh allowing
four in ten minutes and forty nine seconds of the
third period, a five to one lead between a five
to five tie, and they lost that in overtime.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Did you hear the mashup of the Sharks played by
play guy on each goal? It's five to one right now,
and here's the goal to make it five to two.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Scor Sharks score five three five four gone online five
five loads up.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
I mean, guys, get a little excited for December hockey game.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But it was historic though, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
You're beating the Penguins, not the Gretzky Oilers.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
They were five, they were winning five to one with
a twelve there's twelve and a half minutes, like I
should be able to get that one home. I don't
even know who to blame everybody, Yeah, I guess, but
a crazy weekend there. Then you had the Heisman Trophy
awarded to Jacob's guy this weekend, Fernando Alezuela congratulating.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
So close. Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I don't know if you guys saw the the really
great post by Adidas. He just signed his Adidas deal.
His name is spelled h i zmy and do o
z a. Well sorry, Mendoza Emi and do o z a. Yeah,
And so they put in he is Mendoza.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
He's Mendoza. Heis Mendoza.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
That's pretty cool. It reads, you know, two ways. He
is Mendoza, heights mean Dooza. It's it's really awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Then you had that jackass from Vanderbilt all weekend beyond.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I've never seen anybody go back.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'm like a guy that you're kind to rooting four
to oh, we all universally hate him.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It took like three weeks, No, just the one in
between last weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, now, when his mom was like torking at the game,
it was kind of like, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Is this fly? If you saw the footage of him
like a New York City club.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Oh yeah, he's holding up that Indiana's with the signs
that said f Indiana and they were throwing on middle fingers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, dude, classic back.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He's a total He's like right out of the school
of Johnny Manziel.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
What as were pumping college football's tires a little bit.
Navy beats Army seventeen sixteen Saturday.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You were there for that. I was there for that.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
So we're a couple of guys from Mount Lebanon playing
for the midshipman Alex Tesca and Eli Heidenreich. All they did.
Tesca ran nine times for fifty yards. Heisen Reich had
five carries for twenty eight yards. He also caught what
turned out to be the game winning touchdown pass fourth
and goal from the Army eight was six thirty seven
(21:59):
left in regular Navy is down sixteen to ten, so
I was thinking, at least kick a field goal, try
to get a stop, and then try to get a
field goal or a touchdown. Navy said, no, no, if that,
we're going for the gold right now. Hide and Wright
catches nate yard touchdown pass part of a six reception
seventy two yard day.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Through the air.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
And then the last time Navy had the ball, fourth
and one from the Army forty one with a buck
fifty four left. Now they're only up one point. You
don't get this. Army has to go about twenty five
yards to kick a field goal and win the game. No,
Navy said, We'll just give it to Alex Tesca and
he's going to gain two yards and get the first
down that puts the game away, anchors away, Baby, don't
(22:44):
give up the ship.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Good deal.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
We'll talk a little stillers are we at a time?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oliver hazard Perry said that don't give up the ship
they have.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Everybody has those flags when they tailgate. They're so cool.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, it's a pretty cool believe it's from the War
of eighteen twelve, famous naval battle.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well, we made my dad a flag for his birthday
one year and the same font that said effort let
him have the ship.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Because he.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
That seems counter to what they're like.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Because he loved that.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know, he was a Navy guy and he'd always
put he'd always if we had a party that don't
give up the ship, thing would be flying, you know.
So we had one that I was said, let him
have the ship. It's not worth it.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
It was not Oliver Hazard Perry, it was Captain James Lawrence.
During eighteen twelve. It became iconic when Oliver Hazard Perry
flew the flag based on his works.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Oh okay, there we go.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
And they're still flying it today. They are Steelers better
not give up the ship tonight against the Dolphins Monday
Night Football No TJ. Watt, Although according to Tom Pelsero,
the Steelers are hopeful that what will only miss one game.
Derek Harmon was just limited in practice on Saturday, so
I'm guessing he's not going to play either against the
(24:02):
team that has run the crap out of the ball
for four consecutive weeks. The Dolphins, all of a sudden,
are reborn after their one and five start. Steelers are
in the middle of the NFL stretch run. These games
that they're playing tonight, the games to come the one
(24:23):
they played December seventh in Baltimore. Well, these are the
type of games that Aaron Rodgers came here to play.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Yeah, I mean have been a couple of years since
I played in you know, meaningful games in December, So
that's why we play. Obviously, you play to win championships.
You got to be in position and playing the right
way late in the season. So it's good to be
a part of a big time game last Sunday, and
the rest of these will be the same.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Quite a soundtrack there, Well, what a vibe going on?
A little shaggy going on in the background. Is that
in Chili's or.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
It was in the luck. It did not give me
a good feeling. It shouldn't have about the way they
were preparing defensively. You mentioned no watt, probably no harm
in Miami can really run the ball. Steelers have a
hard time with run defense, but a couple of things
working in their favor heading into tonight. Pittsburgh is on
twenty two consecutive home games on Monday Night football. Wow,
(25:17):
what at that's a significant streak. Miami is also with
Tua at quarterback one in seven when the temperature is
below forty six degrees. The one win was a couple
sundays ago against the Jets, who stuck are horrible, terrible,
and the temperature was forty three degrees so barely snuck
(25:39):
under the forty six degree line of demarcation. So basically,
when it's as cold as it's going to be tonight,
Toua is oh for his life. So load up on
the run, and load up on the run to a
beat you and maybe count on a defensive mindset that
has shown up lad in games. The Steelers have been
(26:02):
abysmal based on what they were expecting of themselves defensively,
but the four and one in safe situations, having closed
out the Jets, the Patriots, the Vikings, and the Ravens.
They gave up the ship at the end of the
Cincinnati game in Cincinnati, So but four and one, And
even if they're having a hard time during a game,
(26:23):
they've they've had a habit of rising to occasions that
defensive coordinator Tara Austin beliefs they should rise up for
and handle.
Speaker 11 (26:32):
I just think it's the mentality of our players. We
all know it's a sixty minute game. We know things
don't always go the way you won them. The way
you draw them up, the way you talk about them
in practice. But then if you play hard and you
do things right, you know, if you could play really
well in crunch time, you'll have an opportunity to win
the game. And that's really what our guys do. You know,
our guys don't. They don't fear those situations. They don't
(26:56):
fear those types, you know, times in the game when
the pressures the most. And I think that's why we've
been able to be successful in some of those situations.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Big one, it's not a mathematical elimination game, but kind
of might as well be, because if you look at
the wild card standings and again, you know, you beat
the Ravens at the end of the year here and
that's going to be highly impactful, But do you really
want to have to count on that?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, we could have used the Bengals beating the Ravens
and the Bills not having a massive comeback against the
Patriots yesterday.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
The Texans right now are the third wild card and
nine and five, and they have a better conference record
than the Steelers at seven and six, So starting to
look like division title or bust.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Did you see Josh Allllen thrown up on the sidelines
of the game yesterday.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I did not, and he says he does it every game.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Oh yeah, No, I just do not have a game
sometimes you you know, the cameras catch me and sometimes
I know, usually I'll get it all out before the game.
Speaker 12 (27:59):
That's I mean, if they don't catch it every game,
I don't know, Like it basically happens every game. I
don't know why I do it. It just happens. And
do it to nothing else but other than just like
a weird feeling, just got to.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Get it out. He throws up every game. That's a
weird thing.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
What a great crutch to have if you're nervous beforehand,
you just react and then you're like.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
All right, I'm good. I mean that would be great.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
If it went away with your throw up, if your
nerves went away. Yeah, if you just immediately calm down
with whatever in endorphin rush that that gets you rally.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
They all right, well, we'll talk to Jerry do like
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
We talked a lot about what they need to do
against the Dolphins defensively to defend against Tua and a chain,
but what should they do against this Dolphins defense tonight
depends how they play.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
When I watched Miami, they played a lot of single
high because the Jets think and they had a guy
that never heard of playing quarterback, so they just loaded
up against New York's run nine man boxes. And if
my he plays cover two, you gotta run the ball.
If Miami does not play cover two, you've got to
attack those one on ones, just like the Ravens game.
And hopefully DK Metcalfe Aaron Rodgers have it going on again.
(29:10):
Hopefully Feeling and Vaaldas Scantling are more impactful from a
statistical standpoint. The Steelers are kind of built to take
what they're given. I know there's been a lot of
talk about identity and what do they do well, what
they don't do well. They try to take the path
of least resistance and exploit the defense where it's exploitable.
(29:34):
That's what they got to do.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
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Jerry Dulac from the Postcasette and Steelers Audio Network joining us.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Good morning, Jared, How are.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
You, Rando? I'm fine, Good morning to you.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Hope you're doing well, brother, Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Same.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Have you learned anything new about the incident that punctured TJ.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Watts Lung? Who was doing that? Is it is?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Like?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Is it team affiliated? Was it somebody they bring in
and the subcontract or something? How did that all go down?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Well, if it happened at the facility, whether it appears
to be the outside people aren't brought in, I think
I think maybe on it cage and maybe a pyropractor
comes in.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But in terms of I know they've had massage therapists
to come in that weren't implied by the.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Team, right and and and sometimes that causes a problem,
not that kind of problem, but just maybe whether he
should be you know, you know, I don't know if you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Know, there's someone there to do massages that the team
pays for, and sometimes they bring someone else in.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
That's when the Patriots were into Robert specific.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Retinue of.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Any any type of treatments such as what we're referring
to here. If if a player wants to do that,
they have to do that. I mean they you know,
if they want someone else to do it, they obviously
have to go outside the building because then it becomes
legal issues as to how the guy was injured or
you know, whatever happens. Like in this case, something like
(31:50):
that happens. So because it happened at the facility, I
only have to assume that it was somebody, you know,
a train there's someone's part of the train staff or whatnot.
And then of course, when that happened and he was
experiencing problems, he checked with the doctors, and doctors immediately
sent him to the hospital excuse me, on Wednesday, and
of course he remained there until Thursday. And you know,
(32:15):
so I know this from just kind of asking around
that as bad as it sounds, it's not as bad
as it sounds. And so I expect TJ. Watt to
play again, and maybe sooner than people think.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, that is just crazy to me in saying that
he'd be able to bounce back that quickly.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
But I'm glad to hear it, no doubt about that.
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
On the injury front, we have we gleaned anything more
about Derek Harmon. Is it his lack of participation tell
us all we need to know practice wise about whether
he plays tonight.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
Yeah, usually that's the case. You know, they were certainly
hoping to get him back. I know he was. He
was hopeful. You know, his type of injury is usually
two to four weeks, so it's been two. You know.
You could spend the numbers what it's like with him
and without him, and they could be coincidence or it
could be telling. But one thing's for sure. What hurts
(33:13):
when he's not there, not only just not having him.
Then all of a sudden, your rotational depth just isn't
as good. So instead of why a black, say, coming
a little bit more off the bench in a rotational system,
now he's having to play more. And now the trickle
down is that the next person who comes in isn't
as good as maybe why a Black would have been
(33:33):
off the bench. And so that seems to be because
it's not exactly like they're loaded with talent on the
front line. It's not like they go six and seven deep.
So when you miss, you know, if not your key guy,
certainly one of your key guys along with Cam, then yeah,
it can't it can't help.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
So tonight, given how the last game against the Ravens
went where it was widely basically assume that the reason
Aaron Rodgers had such a prolific day was that he
had scanting and feeling out there to balance DK and
take some attention away.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Will both of those guys get a helmet tonight?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Yeah, I've been told that that's the plan. They're going
to go the same way. I don't know what effect.
You know, when you look at the numbers, obviously they
didn't have a big impact. Uh uh. You know, Vela
Scantling had one target and it was on one of
those third and seven plays when he runs a five
(34:33):
yard round, which is Gene Caryer's favorite playing.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Football short the stations that.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
But but feeling, I think you will see more involved
you know on the past that Aaron Rodgers had batted
back to him, it was going down the field of
feeling who was wide open. They just they felt that
was a touchdown. And I think you're going to see him, uh,
probably get more targets. You know, he got a crash
course last Friday that he played twenty five steps. Was
(35:07):
really surprising to me because he did next to nothing
with the team and team girls on Thursday and Friday.
Though he got the big crash course and you know
they used them a lot. So I think you'll see
him get targeted a little bit more. But I believe
the plan is they're going to you know, it worked
for whatever reason, and they're not going to change anything up.
(35:29):
So I think you'll see at stay exactly to say.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
But what do you anticipate the balance of attack will
be run passed tonight for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Well, you know, the Dolphins defense has gotten a little
bit better, especially against the run. But you know, as
cold as it is, certainly Aaron Rodgers should be accustomed
to cold playing in Great Bay all those years. I
think it's it's just going to depend. I think, you know,
the running game hasn't exactly been sharp, and you know
(36:00):
in the year, if the running game isn't sharp, then
your attack then is let's get the running game going.
This time of year when when you have to win,
it's like, let's do what we do that's going to
help us win the game. And so if that's throwing
the ball, they'll throw the ball. So I mean, it's
going to be cold. I don't think it's going to
be nasty with obviously not rain or snow or anything.
(36:20):
So I mean, I think, you know, it's kind of like, look,
we're going to do what we need to do. If
we're not running the ball well, we're not going to
try to run the ball well or vice versas. So
to me, what we saw last week I think is
something similar. Of course it depends on Miami plays, but
I think it's going to be the same type of
aggressive attack.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
How do you think Renegade's going to go over tonight
first home game since it was booed.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Let's just hope the timing is a little bit better
when they play at Randall. That was the problem last time. Yea,
you know, they stopped on fourth down, they're trailing, and
they're trying to generate enthusiasm and that crowd was in
no mood to be enthusiastic. Hustic, Yes, just the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
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Speaker 1 (37:21):
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Speaker 5 (37:23):
Buddy, Joel, I'm gonna try Randall. Thanks man.
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am hour. Jeff Conkle's in studio with us as well,
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