December 18, 2025 • 39 mins
Big Cat is excited for Pardon My Take's move to Netflix. Guy Junker calls in to discuss the sale of the Penguins to the Hoffman family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guaranteed Human.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Brandy domin m the d.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Morning Show, our buddy Tid Westling Studio with Abby Prisoner
and myself, and we're welcoming our friend Big Cat from
Barstool Sports. Pardon my Take brought to you by Yingling.
Make it a Yingling traditional logger from the oldest brewery
in America and Big Cat, congratulations, big news for the
Pardon My Take podcast there yesterday.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Is this a bit because we're getting We're getting I'm
getting hammered online, I'm getting called a sellout.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You do you really think that I would do anything
but support you. I am, I I am. I am
happy for you. Anybody that's slamming you for this, I
don't you know, this is a big deal. I don't
understand that. I mean, I understand that the access might
be different for some people, but I also we were
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talking about this earlier because you know, the Atomy Awards
are gonna be on YouTube in a few years, and
right now that seems like, oh my god, they're just
bearing it. But it's in very short order. The Netflix
is the YouTube. These are the same thing as ABC, NBC, CBS.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh, definitely, definitely. Yeah, We're really pumped we knew. I mean, listen,
I as someone who hates change, I can't be upset
when other people hate change. Like I if someone wears,
you know, button down shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
If PFT or Hank.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Wear a button down shirt instead of sweatshirt, I'm like,
who died?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What's he doing? I get upset at them.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So I can't be upset and change. But yeah, I'm excited.
We're excited. It's it's pretty crazy where this podcast is
like kind of taking us and and how big it's gotten.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And I think it's.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Gonna be really cool because I think the one part
that is always difficult with these type of change things
is that I think in three four years, like a
lot of podcasts are gonna be on Netflix and it
will be ingrained in people's brains that that's where you
can watch a lot of your podcasts. Yes, but because
we're one of the first ever, a lot of people
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can't envision what that looks like and what that's gonna
feel like. So we're gonna kind we're kind of the
tip of the spear going in where it's like, all right,
we're gonna we're gonna have to eat some right now.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But we're excited want me to give you a parallel
Howard Stern satellite radio.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, exactly like we.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I mean, listen, we did satellite radio for Barstool for
a few years and there was definitely some people who
are like, I'm not getting that. So I get it.
You know, whenever you ask people to pay money, it's
always it's always kind of uncomfortable. But I also think
that a lot of people have Netflix, and I think
that there's just some people that are complaining to complain. Yeah,
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and I saw a few people yesterday which cracked me up.
They're like, I have Netflix, but there's no way I'll
ever watch a podcast on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I was like, how does that make any sense?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
But salute to you for having for standing, you know,
drawing a line in the sands.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, hey man, I am always in awe of the
success that you guys have had. And we've known you
since right when things were starting to percolate for you,
and it's been so fun to watch it continue to
just get bigger and bigger every year. And the fact
that you know, we talked to PFT about this last week.
I got a bone to pick with him. We'll get
to that later that you guys, I think we're the
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number one or number two podcasts, you know, with with
Simmons podcast after doing it for this many years and
still being that high up in the the you know,
streaming numbers for Spotify at this point in the show's run.
That is remarkable. There's very few shows on any level
or medium that achieved that kind of success.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. It's definitely pinch yourself kind of stuff.
And that also the Spotify thing, like that was part
of us decided to do this is we looked at
our numbers in eighty percent of our audience's audio own,
like we were a podcast first. I think if we
were a video show first, because there are some podcasts
quote unquote out there that are way more like they're
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consumed as a video.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Show and that only you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So we knew that our core audience has always been
audio first, because that's how the podcast is born, that's
how we started it. So eighty percent of our audience
is just completely like they listen to that and they're like, oh, okay, cool,
maybe I'll check it out. Maybe I won't won't be changing,
but yeah, it's it's crazy We're coming up on ten
years and it's nuts that we're still chugging along.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Have you considered the fact that if the WB merger
goes through for Netflix, you know, and they stop the
paramount thing from happening, the now all of a sudden,
the pardon might take movie can start to happen. You
guys can start to produce movies.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I think it probably be the most boring movie ever
because it would pretty much just be us watching football
and then being like, all right, we go pod no,
pretty much our entire day to day.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
No. But no, I'm talking origin story. I want the
origin story, like the biotic dogs. What about Boner Dogs?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Dogs?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
There you go, Boner Dogs?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean, listen, we have a lot of people
loosely attached to Boner Dogs who've been trying trying to
get it set up for a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So maybe we can get the green light off.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And what's the plot of Boner Dogs For those who
don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Boner Dogs needs uh, The plot is similar to like Rudolph,
where it's a bunch of Alaskan the idea rod and
it's so it's like a bunch of huskies and then
there's one of the dogs just always has a boner
and everyone makes fun of them for having a boner,
and they get lost and then they can look in
the snow and his boner was dragging in the snow,
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so they're able to get home.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Oh that is a feel good story. It's like a
little homeward bound story.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, right right, it's cute.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I think dogs absolutely animated, and you guys do the voices.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yes, I think it was.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I think we loosely have attached. I mean Jerry O'Connell's attached. Sure,
I believe Adam Sandler is attached. Wow, I don't know how,
but I think we had. This is when I say attached.
We just pitch it to them and we're like, hey,
are you in and they don't say no, so then
we just say they're attached. I think Will Ferrell maybe
we have playing or no, damn Patrick, maybe we'll be
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doing the voice of the boner. So we got some
we got some people.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We got the people touched, so the boner will talk.
I'm liking this movie more and more. I mean the
marketing tie ins that you guys would be able to do.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, it would be great.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We actually did like kind of start to write a script.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
For it, and we're like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's what you know.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
That's when you know you're working in the right place.
When you're like, we should write that boner Dog script
and then you actually try you've made Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Then you like wake up and you and you say
to yourself like, wait, wait, have we gone? Are we
too deep into this? Are we have we gone too far?
Maybe we need to take a step.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Back for a second.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, So your your cohort PFT is on this kick
to say that the Steelers dominating Monday night run is
a fabricated thing by the league, that they have given
them a fabricated streak, and that it's not legitimate because
he has searched out the opponents win percentage throughout that
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twenty two games or whatever it is is twenty two
or twenty three, I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
At any rate.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And the Steelers is I think it's their opponents win
percentage in those Monday night games. Is it's SOMEB five hundred.
I think it's like point four nine or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And I would like to submit how can the league
know which teams are gonna stink that far? Into the season.
Did we really know the Dolphins we're gonna stink this year?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Okay, fair, Yes we did.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Fair.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That one's fair, But there are plenty of other ones.
Look at all the teams that are like, you know,
the Bengals, the Chiefs, the you know, all of the
Christmas Day games are dogs this year, right, Like, good
teams don't always like it doesn't always pan out. So
I don't know how you can say the league planned
on them playing crappy teams. A lot of times teams
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just become crappy.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, no, you're you're right on that. I actually was
trying to push back a little bit, but it was
a funny like angle that he took. But yeah, I
mean I said too. The real story is like the
Steelers are just consistently never bad.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's that's more.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The reason why they keep doing this is like year
in year out, it's they're they're putting out a team
that is never, like truly truly bad. Because if you
had like a two win season mixed in there, you
wouldn't you wouldn't be you wouldn't have kept the streak alive.
But I do like the idea that it's some type
of deep state. We got to pop up the Steelers
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and keep them winning these Monday games. Now, are you guys,
because Aaron Rodgers looks back like the last.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Two weeks, he's looked awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Are you guys thinking like if this, if this theory
by pf T is true, they have to put the
Steelers on the wild card weekend Monday Night Football so
that you guys can finally break the streak and.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And win a playoff game.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
That that's gonna happen, right because you.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Know, because that's when my conspiracy comes in. The league
is working against the Steelers to win a postseason game,
and knowing they dominate on Monday nights, they'll put them
on Saturday afternoon where they stink.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Okay, And by the way, this is all we should
We should just point out all of this by PFT
comes from a place of he He wants people to
remember that the Commanders beat the eleven and zero Steelers
during the COVID season and that game was technically played
on Monday after So he wants that on the record.
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That's really where this all comes from.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Okay, and again, legitimate beef, there no question about it. Yes,
but we have so little to celebrate right now. At
least let us keep our meaningless streaks.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, I love the streak, the streak. I was there
for part of the streak. I was there for the
Bears Steelers game like three years ago, and I think
I said at that moment, oh my god, Justin Field
is the guy.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
This is gonna be awesome. That was stupid.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, that really feels dumb in retract, But yeah, I've
been there for the streak. Listen the Monday Night Football.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's a great scene.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I also this one particularly like it's one of my
most meatball takes. But it's so true and I keep
winning on it. The Dolphins' uniforms will never be good
in the cold. Mike McDaniel cannot play in the cold.
That team plays in any type of cold, and it's
just over no matter what. So I've just been fading
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the Dolphins anytime it's under forty agrees and I win
every single post.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I mean, it was an abysmal effort into what is
finally done, and it looks like they're gonna eat all
that money going forward. But that's a mess I don't
even want to delve into. I want to ask you
about Joe Burrow's comments. He sounded to me like a
guy who just like started talking to his wife and
he's like thinking about another woman, and she's like, are
you thinking of straying? And he was like, you think
a lot of things, yeah, yeah, right, and then and
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then she's like, present wait a minute, are you saying
that you want to leave me? He's like, no, that's
not really what I'm saying here. So I can't make
sense of what he's doing. If this is the start
of a play to get out of Cincinnati or a
start of his move to get out of football.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I don't think it's out of football. I feel like
Joe Burrow, he's kind of stuck.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
So it's it's a similar time timeline.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Is Carson Palmer right, Like Carson Palmer was eight years
in and was like, I can't do this anymore. So
the difference being that Joe Burrow obviously is from the
state of Ohio, from not too far away. The fans
love him, so I don't know if he's trying to
retire from football or if he's trying.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
To you know.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I think if you do the relationship analogy, it's more
along the lines of when you, you know, maybe don't text
back all the time and you give a little bit
of the cold shoulder of your girlfriend and you're like,
I don't I'm too much of a whim to break
up with her. But I'm just hoping that if I don't,
if I don't pay any attention to her, she'll break.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Up with me first.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I think that's what he's maybe he's trying to do, like, yeah, hey, look,
maybe the Bengals will try to trade me because I'm
clearly not so happy. But I'm not asking for a trade.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
No, no, exactly, he's doing the Ben like Ben affleck. Yeah,
he did that with every relationship.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
He admitted.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
He's like, yeah, I act like a jerk, and I
tried to get them to break up with me and
usually works.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Sure, that's some really mature stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I want to ask you about the Bears fan who
is eating spaghetti out of a huge ziplock bag and
your thoughts on whether that's an appropriate bring your own
meal or if that breaches some sort of football menu
guidelines that we all need to adhere too.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
No, I love it. I love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Did you see that they had it for multiple games
and they and they date the games like on the
ziplock bag. So it's like they do it. They have
like a little tradition and it's said like they showed
other bags. It was like, you know ten twenty seven Bears,
you know Saints and Bears. So I love these guys.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
They eat spaghetti out of a big ziplock bag. To
be clear, they're eating spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Get it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I think I think that's why it works. I think
because it is so ridiculous, it works any other food.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I knew a guy wants to who would uh.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
He would go out to the bar and he would
just he would put like sausages and hot dogs in
his ziplock bag and he would just walk around with
some like in case meets and Casey got hungry. So
and it was ridiculous, but it was so funny. And
I think the spaghetti if it was just like a
regular I don't even know what what else would be
like they probably like a sandwich in or something. Everyone
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be like, all right, cool whatever that means. The fact
that it's spaghetti and meatballs.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Is so funny that I think it plays. I love
these guys.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The playoffs this year, no Patrick Mahomes, no Joe Burrow
in the AFC. A lot of the faces you're used
to seeing is the NFL Playoffs? Are they better or worse?
For that?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think they're better. I think they're better. I think
this is an exciting year where it's like this is
not the thing is, You're not gonna have like a
true passing of the torch. I think that's what kind
of makes it exciting, where it's.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Not like Patrick Mahomes is done. It's not like Joe
Burrow's done.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
But we have a year where you have some young
guys getting a shot, and then next year it's like,
can the old guys come back?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So I'm I'm in for it. Josh Allen, Oh man,
I'm hoping.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'm obviously the biggest Josh Allen fan, so I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Hoping that maybe this is the year.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I am a little upset that we weren't able to
celebrate the Chiefs being bounced from the playoffs as much
as we should have been able to.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Time get hurt. You're trying to rob us at that moment.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Was really like that was not cool by him to tears.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Atl Right, Well, we'll at least get to celebrate when
Taylor finally dumps Travis, because that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Yeah that listen, I'm not gonna talk on that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I got enough people at my neck right now. Online.
I'm not gonna go back down that road. I got it.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You can't fight it too fun. You can't fight a
TRUO fun battle.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Okay, understood, all right, only limited time left here, we're
heading into the Christmas break. Is always thanks to you
and PFT Man. We appreciate you guys for staying with
us all these years here on the DV Morning show.
And I know you don't do anything but your hometown
radio shows and us, so Pittsburgh truly appreciates it, and
we love you guys. So I want to ask you
as you head into this Christmas holiday top three Christmas
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movie must watches?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Mmm. Okay, let me preface everything by saying, anyone who
does the whole Diehard debate, just go.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I don't know what you with your you're weirdore.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Like, just stop, all right, I think it's Christmas vacation.
I think it's home alone. And then I'm gonna say
this is just a recency biased personal one with my kids.
The Grinch cartoon that they came out with a few
years ago. My kids absolutely love it, and so I'll
throw that in there that that's a sentimental I've been
starting to make a tradition with my kids watching that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Is this a new one that they put out or
is it the original Gritch?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
No, it's it's fairly new. It's it's on Peacock. I
want to say, I don't know where it is, but
it's yeah, it's an animated Grinch that is I maybe
four or five years.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It's good though, and the kids love it, so I
love it. I like you make my top three.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
How psyched are you for? Because you have enough kids
now where they're all ages, A couple of them are
grown up enough to really be into this. You're you're
in full oh Dad Christmas mode, like go down Christmas
Morning in your pj's and film them opening their their
presence mode. You got to be psyched.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Oh it's so much fun. Although this year we're going
down to Florida because like the only week I have off,
and my wife is like, I do not want to
spend the entire winter in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
With no vacation.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I was like, oh right, fair point So the big
buzz in my house has been is this is Santa
going to know that we're going.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
To be in Florida.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They're really nervous about it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So what is the How do you broach that? Do
you say that they track your phone and he knows?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
No.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
We had my buddy has a bar, one of my
best friends has a bar here in Chicago, and he
had he had Santa at the bar on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So the kids went and they told them, Hey, we're
going to be in Florida. So I think we have
it covered.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I think they He told the big man.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Himself that's smart. So that's smart.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Uh well, buddy, look man, have a great holiday. And
as I said, man, thanks for everything. Much left to
you and Pften congrats on all the success and looking
forward to talking to you guys in twenty six.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
All right, thanks guys, Happy holidays, See you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Soon all rybody, We'll see you when we come back.
Mike Persona joining us here and Guy Junker more to come.
It's the dB Morning Show all season long. Ask for
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Speaker 6 (18:38):
Sports us Up, brought to you by Bridgeville appliance to
the Steelers offensive resurgence continued against Miami thanks to no
small part to the steel City Shove that played. The
Steelers are embracing, if not loving. Here's Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Well, we've been pretty good at it. You know, Connor's
in a nice job at it. We had a wrinkle,
you know, giving the ball to Kenny in Chicago. That
was a fifty yard game. It's not a play that
anybody really likes something across the league. There's been some
talk about trying to get it out of the league.
I think there's a way to maybe find a happy
medium with some of the splits and stuff. But the
way the rules are now, it's been a play that
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we've had success with. So Mike likes it, Arthur likes it,
and obviously Connor likes it too.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So get used to it.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
And Rogers, by the way, has no problem with his role,
and his role is going to continue out of the
stand back and observe and then gesture emphatically. That's been
criticized by some, but those criticisms are misguided.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
It's not a ten on eleven play. I've seen that
places where oh it's ten on eleven with the quarterback
going back there, just standing.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
With his hands on his hips.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
There's a lot of guys who aren't involved in that play,
usually a deep safety, and the guys on the edges
had absolute zero impact on the play. So as long
as we're going to keep sneaking it, I'm gonna keep
standing back there, police signaling first down.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Difference beings that he could be a part of that
play the other guys can't. He could be a person
who's pushing the pusher of the tush, a second pusher.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
That is.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The last thing you want him doing, getting in a
massive bodies and getting stepped on and falling on.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And which is why you put Johnny Smith back there.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Get him as far away from that as you possibly can.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well, I just want him to strike a different pose
than the three amigos. It fits him, don't you think
the turning coffee. I mean it, it's weird, it's funny looking,
it was cool the first time. I don't know a
little bit while I'm over the toush push. I hate
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the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That I can't stand it.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
If I wanted to watch rugby, I'd moved to frigging England.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Is that what they played? Rugby?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You know the thing that I always like my reaction
to the Steel City City shove or Pittsburgh plunge, whichever
you prober.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
That doesn't work, that's right. Yeah, we're not plunging into anything.
No pushing forward. That's what they call the kolonoscopy clinic.
But when they do it, every time they come out,
I'm like, oh not again. In my brain, it has
a very low success rate. In reality, it's been incredibly
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successful for the Steelers, but.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
For some reason, when I see it, I think, no,
don't do that. Like I just don't think it looks
good when they do it. But the success rate you
can't argue with.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Yeah, and they seem to be getting better at it.
I mean the way they do it that stands to reason.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
You know, if you want to play ball control, you
got to pick up third and one, fourth and one.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Can they instead of using Cam Heyward, use Calvin Austin
and then have Mount Washington pick him up and hurl
him over the line.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I don't think that's allowed.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I had wondered that why not? What's the difference.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
I don't think you'll have to throw a guy who
says you might you might be honest something I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I know you, and I don't mean like, you know,
like over his head and like Andre the Giant, I
mean like collar belt he whoa you know, and like
just chuckle, get thrown out of a bar.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Yes, I'll do some investigating see if that's an option.
Kenny Gainwell is also a guy who you might say
is enjoying avers surgency.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Was a big player in Philly.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
The Miami game last Sunday, the latest example of the
impact Gamewell has had on the Steelers offense. It's been
kind of a revelation to see what he can do
now that Gamewell has stepped out of Saquon Barkley's massive
shadow in Philly. But Gainwell credits what he's achieving to
his new quarterback more than his expanded role.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
I mean, Aaron Rodgers, you know, him trusting me my hands,
you know, he just doing the small things and just
went out there and working. I think he just just
shows the character of him, you know, being the guy
he is, and he's just understanding the game.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
It's fascinating to me that they had Russell Wilson last year,
Who's a guy that had won the Super.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Bowl ten years ago. You know, I literally block it
out when I talk about last year. I'm like last
year when Mason took us to the playoffs, it's like
a COVID year for me. Didn't exist, Been there, done
that guy.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
And yet Rogers, who has won as many Super Bowls
as Russ, seems like a completely different component that they
have gone for him this year. And I think, you know,
I think Russ's game was starting at the tear rate
by this time last year. I think everybody had had
enough of the toxic positivity, positivity leadership, and it's just
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a different vibe this year.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
With Aaron Rodgers, I don't think there's anybody.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
He's a way better player that knows whether a football
is blown up or stuff. Would compare Russell Wilson to
Aaron Rodgers and say, yeah, they're pretty much the same.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Guy, way better player. Russ peaked long ago and is
he was in panic mode with the Steelers this last year.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
And I was also having a discussion about Russell with
one of the other media guys yesterday and it wasn't.
This guy was insisting that Russell wasn't fake. You know
that that day Everything's great name everybody and all that.
He insisted that that's who Russell Wilson was. And I
will concede that point, but it wore people out, and
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it just it wasn't something that anybody was going to
a rally around by December. If I summed up Russell's
tenure in Pittsburgh, it wouldn't be the moon balls. It
would be the fumble in Baltimore when they could have
won the division, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Running on and he tried to do too much, running up.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
To Cam Hayward after he totally butchered against Cincinnati in
which they needed to maybe get twenty five yards to
get Boswell a position to win the game. And then
he went up to Cam Hayward and started giving him
a pep talk. Yeah, and Cam just didn't want to
hear it and just kept walking. That's kind of where
they were last year. This year, like, hey we got
Anion Rodgers, stuff might happen.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So that game, Cam Hayward played with like one hundred
and two degree fever and played his ass off, and
Russell Wilson just burped up the game, just gave them
no chance to win at the end, even though the
defense set them up to win the game. And then
he immediately his reaction is to sprint over to Cam Heyward, Hey, hey, hey, hey,
don't get mad, don't get mad. We're gonna win, all right,
(25:43):
big daddy, We're gonna win. Yeah. Yeah, And he won't
even look at him because he wants to kill him.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I'm puking and it's not because I have one hundred
and two degree fever.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, guy just like busted his ass playing through a fever.
Gave you a chance to win, and you completely screwed
it up completely. Not the time to go over and
rally the troops. No, yeah, we're behind you.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
It's like if it gets screened the room, and it might,
I don't think it's going to be because of the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I think we all know that. I think we all
know that. No, who's gonna screw it up to something?
I think defensively is the problem. And injuries right now,
that's the real big issue. Guy Junker Away in on
that and more when we come back on The d
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Speaker 5 (27:36):
You, guys smattering will do.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I'm older than I usually get yeah right, I mean
some people would kill for us mattering. So the UH
Steelers this past Monday night, there were a lot of people,
myself included, wondering, oh god, will they blow this game?
Will they will? They bowed down and you know, play
down to this Dolphins team that's on a bit of
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a winning streak that seems to be propped up by
having played bad teams? Are we destined to see it?
Just a crappy football game in fridgid temperatures, And to
their credit, they did what they should have done. They
easily handled the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
Yeah, and we talked last week about the things going
against the Dolphins. Not only was their four game winning streak,
in my mind not that impressive, although when they played
the Bears, the Bears hadn't really beat anybody and they
beat them. And also, you know the lousy record of
Toua and the team in general when they played games
that are in cold weather. So but I think that
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was one of the more impressive things, not that they
won the game. That you know, they got those couple
of garbage touchdowns. There were a few guys in there
playing late in the game that you hardly ever see
the field, So I thought that was one of the
more impressive things that they kept the you know, the
foot on the gas and soundly beat them to the
point where I bet Chris Callin got called into the
office for saying, well for the audience that's still watching
(28:58):
at one point, you know, say something like that on
the air without getting called into the eight.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
That I mean Troy Aikman, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I like a man man. He's he's stopped giving an
f about anything. He'll argue with the rules analysts. He'll
tell you you crushing McDaniel for the way he handled
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Coinsworth conversely, would have been talking about Patrick Mahomes during
to steal his Dolphins.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You know, that was one of the surprises though about that.
You know, like.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
John Madden talking about Brett Fariball at the time, no
matter who was like it.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
So, but one of the surprises to.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
Me was the lack of You would have thought the
Dolphins their season is ending if they lose, they're on
a four game winning streak. Would have been playing in
the fourth quarter with their hair on fire, and they
were like, let's just get this over with. And I
didn't think they made good use of the clock at all.
Uh Yeah, I thought it was a very strange approach
by them. Maybe you know, they just felt they were
soundly beaten and they weren't going to change it.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
But that seemed kind of weird to me.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
We've been talking a lot about how the Steelers offensive
line has really come along this year, and never more
evident than Monday night when they are utilizing a fourth
string tackle who Brian Baldinger even said he didn't have
one bad rep.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Yeah, I'm allowed no pressures and and you know, the
week before when they were forced to put him in,
they're like, oh, they gotta protect that. This is the
first snap that he's taken. And uh, he played extremely well.
Uh you know, the the throwing of the ball over
the middle occasionally it just and going deep occasionally.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Just it's it's unbelievable how much it opens things up.
That said that said, I still think they're.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
Going to have a hard time keeping up with with
Detroit's offense. I mean, Detroit well the start of the season,
winning four games in a row and they haven't won
back to back game since. But you look at the
last three teams they lost through the Rams, the Packers,
and the Eagles, that's a pretty good group right there.
And the weird thing is, you know, all games matter,
but all they have to do is beat the Ravens
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the last game of the year, and they're in these
two games.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
If they lose them both that they're still in if
they beat the Ravens. I hope it doesn't come down
to having to.
Speaker 11 (31:10):
Do that, but you know, they could also win these
next two games, lose to Baltimore and still miss the playoffs.
So I kind of wish they were playing Baltimore this weekend.
We could get it over with and then maybe you
could rest for two weeks if you win.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well, there's a scenario here if the Steelers lose and
the Ravens win, then Week seventeen against the Browns does
not matter for the Steelers. If that predicament occurs. And
you're Mike Tomlin, do you rest the key players?
Speaker 11 (31:36):
Yes, I absolutely, especially with the team this old and
a quarterback who's wearing a cast on is left arm
as it is, Yeah, I would definitely. You know, if
you're one of these teams that's like fifteen and two
and you're gonna have a buy And then we saw
that with you know, when Tony Dungee coach the Colts
and stuff, and then you rest guy and all of
(31:56):
a sudden, it's three weeks since guys played the game,
and you go out and you get beat by a
team that's been in desperation mode for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
But I don't think one week is going to make
that big of a difference.
Speaker 11 (32:07):
The thing about it is that, you know, Baltimore already
lost to the Lions. So to me, this is the
least important game of the three they have left because
because the tiebreaker will probably be they'll probably have the
same divisional record that the Steelers beat Cleveland and Baltimore
what happened to beat the Steelers?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Then you go to you know, common opponents, and.
Speaker 11 (32:25):
That loss to the Bears is hurting because, pardon me,
Baltimore beat the Bears. So if the Steelers could go
and beat the Lions and Baltimore loses the New England,
that really ups their you know, possibilities when you go
to head to head.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Guy, Any thoughts on the changing ownership with the Pittsburgh
Steelers the or the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Hoffman Group out
of Chicago adds the Penguins now to their portfolio of
over two hundred different businesses. Hockey is now one of them.
I don't know exactly what that means in terms of
newness to the sport. Certain they know how to make
(33:00):
money FSG. They knew how to make money by just
buying the team, letting it sit there, doing nothing with it,
and sold it for a humongous profit.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
It's like turning the house, except they didn't do anything exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
They didn't have to fix it up right.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yeah, in fact, they let it. They let it fall
apart a little bit.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, the deck fell off the back.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
But you know, hey, we put new shutters on the front.
I kind of like it because I never really liked
the Fenway Sports Group. Just it's still in how a
town owner though I don't like absentee owners.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
And I can number and Mike probably you two.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
Back in the day when Edward de Barblow owned the team,
you know, he'd come down from Youngstown and he wouldn't
like sit in the press box. He would stand behind
the B section at the Civic arena, just like in
the in the back, behind the last row of seats
down there, and to be and watch the games.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And you know when.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Mario owned the team, I mean Burkele wasn't here as much,
but Mario was always in the box and I just
like that hands on field.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
I mean, well that fast. You never felt the Penguins.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
Were as important as the Red Sox or even the
Liverpool soccer team.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
It was just like a corporate cold ownership.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
The worst thing to me that they did was they
alienated Lemieux and so if they treated it as an investment,
they got what they wanted. They pretty much doubled their money.
So I like that, but it's also another out of
town ownership. But these people aren't like owning all kinds
of sports enterprises to make money. EI are soccer or
hockey people. You know, they owned the team, the minor
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league team down in Florida, the ever Blades or whatever.
Apparently you know that David Hoffman's kids all play hockey
and stuff. So but they don't have the money that
the Fenway Sports Group did either. Were used to them
spending right up to the salary cap. Is this guy
going to be able to do it? And what's gonna happen?
And one of the things to me, what's gonna happen
to you know, sports Net Pittsburgh, because that's owned co
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co By the Pirates and Fenway Sports Group. Are they
gonna have enough money to come in here and be
able to keep the television part floating? So I think
there are some questions, but in general I like it,
mostly because I didn't like Family Sports Group.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Guy, we're coming up on our Christmas break here. Tomorrow
morning will be the last morning show for us before
we break till January fifth, and I'm wondering, are you
doing I remember asking that this last year, but I
can't remember what your answer was. Do you do the
seven fishes?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
We did?
Speaker 11 (35:19):
My wife's Italian and my mother in law used to
do that every Christmas Eve, but she's up in years now,
so she doesn't do that cooking anymore.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
So no, we will not be doing it.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Were you a fam.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Wed, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I liked all. You know.
Speaker 11 (35:33):
I had come from Randy and come from a very
small family. My brother never got married and my sister
had two kids and that's it.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
And my wife is fifty one first cousins.
Speaker 11 (35:43):
So we went from like quiet, you know, George Winston
playing on the fun mystereo dinners at my I'd go
over their house and kids were shooting dark guns and
knocking the Christmas tree over and hitting golf balls into
the fruit bunch.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And I kind of I loved all.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
That stuff for a while. It was two totally different things.
But it's much calmer now. Everybody going up.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I miss for.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Those for you guys that abby.
Speaker 11 (36:06):
I enjoy your kids while they're young, because there's a
certain magic that has gone, you know that now that
they're all adults.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Well, the wrap bags are no fun.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The wonderment of opening the wrapping and ripping,
seeing them rip it open and you know, their eyes
get really big and everything, and then you pray you
don't disappoint.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
Your kids'cause they're never going to touch it again.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, look, wishing you and your family
a very uh merry Christmas, happy Holidays, and uh, nothing
but happiness and health going forward in twenty six. Thanks
for everything this year, buddy, Oh.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Really appreciate it. I love being on and talking with
you every week. So good holidays to you.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
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Speaker 8 (37:07):
I like that good angle.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Dave Damashek will certainly do his run on Rudolph again,
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Speaker 1 (37:20):
Of course he's got some points on that Rudolph thing.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What do you mean, Oh, he's making some good points.
You're saying, yes, okay. I was at Gambler Brain for
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Speaker 4 (00:30):
Is this a bit because we're getting We're getting I'm
getting hammered online, I'm getting called a sellout.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You do you really think that I would do anything
but support you. I am, I I am. I am
happy for you. Anybody that's slamming you for this, I
don't you know, this is a big deal. I don't
understand that. I mean, I understand that the access might
be different for some people, but I also we were
(00:57):
talking about this earlier because you know, the Atomy Awards
are gonna be on YouTube in a few years, and
right now that seems like, oh my god, they're just
bearing it. But it's in very short order. The Netflix
is the YouTube. These are the same thing as ABC, NBC, CBS.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh, definitely, definitely. Yeah, We're really pumped we knew. I mean, listen,
I as someone who hates change, I can't be upset
when other people hate change. Like I if someone wears,
you know, button down shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
If PFT or Hank.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Wear a button down shirt instead of sweatshirt, I'm like,
who died?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What's he doing? I get upset at them.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So I can't be upset and change. But yeah, I'm excited.
We're excited. It's it's pretty crazy where this podcast is
like kind of taking us and and how big it's gotten.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And I think it's.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Gonna be really cool because I think the one part
that is always difficult with these type of change things
is that I think in three four years, like a
lot of podcasts are gonna be on Netflix and it
will be ingrained in people's brains that that's where you
can watch a lot of your podcasts. Yes, but because
we're one of the first ever, a lot of people
(02:07):
can't envision what that looks like and what that's gonna
feel like. So we're gonna kind we're kind of the
tip of the spear going in where it's like, all right,
we're gonna we're gonna have to eat some right now.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But we're excited want me to give you a parallel
Howard Stern satellite radio.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, exactly like we.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I mean, listen, we did satellite radio for Barstool for
a few years and there was definitely some people who
are like, I'm not getting that. So I get it.
You know, whenever you ask people to pay money, it's
always it's always kind of uncomfortable. But I also think
that a lot of people have Netflix, and I think
that there's just some people that are complaining to complain. Yeah,
(02:48):
and I saw a few people yesterday which cracked me up.
They're like, I have Netflix, but there's no way I'll
ever watch a podcast on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I was like, how does that make any sense?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
But salute to you for having for standing, you know,
drawing a line in the sands.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, hey man, I am always in awe of the
success that you guys have had. And we've known you
since right when things were starting to percolate for you,
and it's been so fun to watch it continue to
just get bigger and bigger every year. And the fact
that you know, we talked to PFT about this last week.
I got a bone to pick with him. We'll get
to that later that you guys, I think we're the
(03:25):
number one or number two podcasts, you know, with with
Simmons podcast after doing it for this many years and
still being that high up in the the you know,
streaming numbers for Spotify at this point in the show's run.
That is remarkable. There's very few shows on any level
or medium that achieved that kind of success.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. It's definitely pinch yourself kind of stuff.
And that also the Spotify thing, like that was part
of us decided to do this is we looked at
our numbers in eighty percent of our audience's audio own,
like we were a podcast first. I think if we
were a video show first, because there are some podcasts
quote unquote out there that are way more like they're
(04:10):
consumed as a video.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Show and that only you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So we knew that our core audience has always been
audio first, because that's how the podcast is born, that's
how we started it. So eighty percent of our audience
is just completely like they listen to that and they're like, oh, okay, cool,
maybe I'll check it out. Maybe I won't won't be changing,
but yeah, it's it's crazy We're coming up on ten
years and it's nuts that we're still chugging along.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Have you considered the fact that if the WB merger
goes through for Netflix, you know, and they stop the
paramount thing from happening, the now all of a sudden,
the pardon might take movie can start to happen. You
guys can start to produce movies.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I think it probably be the most boring movie ever
because it would pretty much just be us watching football
and then being like, all right, we go pod no,
pretty much our entire day to day.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
No. But no, I'm talking origin story. I want the
origin story, like the biotic dogs. What about Boner Dogs?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Dogs?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
There you go, Boner Dogs?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean, listen, we have a lot of people
loosely attached to Boner Dogs who've been trying trying to
get it set up for a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So maybe we can get the green light off.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And what's the plot of Boner Dogs For those who
don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Boner Dogs needs uh, The plot is similar to like Rudolph,
where it's a bunch of Alaskan the idea rod and
it's so it's like a bunch of huskies and then
there's one of the dogs just always has a boner
and everyone makes fun of them for having a boner,
and they get lost and then they can look in
the snow and his boner was dragging in the snow,
(05:49):
so they're able to get home.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Oh that is a feel good story. It's like a
little homeward bound story.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, right right, it's cute.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I think dogs absolutely animated, and you guys do the voices.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yes, I think it was.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I think we loosely have attached. I mean Jerry O'Connell's attached. Sure,
I believe Adam Sandler is attached. Wow, I don't know how,
but I think we had. This is when I say attached.
We just pitch it to them and we're like, hey,
are you in and they don't say no, so then
we just say they're attached. I think Will Ferrell maybe
we have playing or no, damn Patrick, maybe we'll be
(06:27):
doing the voice of the boner. So we got some
we got some people.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
We got the people touched, so the boner will talk.
I'm liking this movie more and more. I mean the
marketing tie ins that you guys would be able to do.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, it would be great.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
We actually did like kind of start to write a script.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
For it, and we're like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's what you know.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
That's when you know you're working in the right place.
When you're like, we should write that boner Dog script
and then you actually try you've made Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Then you like wake up and you and you say
to yourself like, wait, wait, have we gone? Are we
too deep into this? Are we have we gone too far?
Maybe we need to take a step.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Back for a second.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, So your your cohort PFT is on this kick
to say that the Steelers dominating Monday night run is
a fabricated thing by the league, that they have given
them a fabricated streak, and that it's not legitimate because
he has searched out the opponents win percentage throughout that
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twenty two games or whatever it is is twenty two
or twenty three, I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
At any rate.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And the Steelers is I think it's their opponents win
percentage in those Monday night games. Is it's SOMEB five hundred.
I think it's like point four nine or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
And I would like to submit how can the league
know which teams are gonna stink that far? Into the season.
Did we really know the Dolphins we're gonna stink this year?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Okay, fair, Yes we did.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Fair.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That one's fair, But there are plenty of other ones.
Look at all the teams that are like, you know,
the Bengals, the Chiefs, the you know, all of the
Christmas Day games are dogs this year, right, Like, good
teams don't always like it doesn't always pan out. So
I don't know how you can say the league planned
on them playing crappy teams. A lot of times teams
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just become crappy.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, no, you're you're right on that. I actually was
trying to push back a little bit, but it was
a funny like angle that he took. But yeah, I
mean I said too. The real story is like the
Steelers are just consistently never bad.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
That's that's more.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The reason why they keep doing this is like year
in year out, it's they're they're putting out a team
that is never, like truly truly bad. Because if you
had like a two win season mixed in there, you
wouldn't you wouldn't be you wouldn't have kept the streak alive.
But I do like the idea that it's some type
of deep state. We got to pop up the Steelers
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and keep them winning these Monday games. Now, are you guys,
because Aaron Rodgers looks back like the last.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Two weeks, he's looked awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Are you guys thinking like if this, if this theory
by pf T is true, they have to put the
Steelers on the wild card weekend Monday Night Football so
that you guys can finally break the streak and.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And win a playoff game.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
That that's gonna happen, right because you.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Know, because that's when my conspiracy comes in. The league
is working against the Steelers to win a postseason game,
and knowing they dominate on Monday nights, they'll put them
on Saturday afternoon where they stink.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Okay, And by the way, this is all we should
We should just point out all of this by PFT
comes from a place of he He wants people to
remember that the Commanders beat the eleven and zero Steelers
during the COVID season and that game was technically played
on Monday after So he wants that on the record.
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That's really where this all comes from.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Okay, and again, legitimate beef, there no question about it. Yes,
but we have so little to celebrate right now. At
least let us keep our meaningless streaks.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, I love the streak, the streak. I was there
for part of the streak. I was there for the
Bears Steelers game like three years ago, and I think
I said at that moment, oh my god, Justin Field
is the guy.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
This is gonna be awesome. That was stupid.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, that really feels dumb in retract, But yeah, I've
been there for the streak. Listen the Monday Night Football.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's a great scene.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I also this one particularly like it's one of my
most meatball takes. But it's so true and I keep
winning on it. The Dolphins' uniforms will never be good
in the cold. Mike McDaniel cannot play in the cold.
That team plays in any type of cold, and it's
just over no matter what. So I've just been fading
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the Dolphins anytime it's under forty agrees and I win
every single post.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I mean, it was an abysmal effort into what is
finally done, and it looks like they're gonna eat all
that money going forward. But that's a mess I don't
even want to delve into. I want to ask you
about Joe Burrow's comments. He sounded to me like a
guy who just like started talking to his wife and
he's like thinking about another woman, and she's like, are
you thinking of straying? And he was like, you think
a lot of things, yeah, yeah, right, and then and
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then she's like, present wait a minute, are you saying
that you want to leave me? He's like, no, that's
not really what I'm saying here. So I can't make
sense of what he's doing. If this is the start
of a play to get out of Cincinnati or a
start of his move to get out of football.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I don't think it's out of football. I feel like
Joe Burrow, he's kind of stuck.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
So it's it's a similar time timeline.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Is Carson Palmer right, Like Carson Palmer was eight years
in and was like, I can't do this anymore. So
the difference being that Joe Burrow obviously is from the
state of Ohio, from not too far away. The fans
love him, so I don't know if he's trying to
retire from football or if he's trying.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
To you know.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I think if you do the relationship analogy, it's more
along the lines of when you, you know, maybe don't text
back all the time and you give a little bit
of the cold shoulder of your girlfriend and you're like,
I don't I'm too much of a whim to break
up with her. But I'm just hoping that if I don't,
if I don't pay any attention to her, she'll break.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Up with me first.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I think that's what he's maybe he's trying to do, like, yeah, hey, look,
maybe the Bengals will try to trade me because I'm
clearly not so happy. But I'm not asking for a trade.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
No, no, exactly, he's doing the Ben like Ben affleck. Yeah,
he did that with every relationship.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
He admitted.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
He's like, yeah, I act like a jerk, and I
tried to get them to break up with me and
usually works.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Sure, that's some really mature stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I want to ask you about the Bears fan who
is eating spaghetti out of a huge ziplock bag and
your thoughts on whether that's an appropriate bring your own
meal or if that breaches some sort of football menu
guidelines that we all need to adhere too.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
No, I love it. I love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Did you see that they had it for multiple games
and they and they date the games like on the
ziplock bag. So it's like they do it. They have
like a little tradition and it's said like they showed
other bags. It was like, you know ten twenty seven Bears,
you know Saints and Bears. So I love these guys.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
They eat spaghetti out of a big ziplock bag. To
be clear, they're eating spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Get it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I think I think that's why it works. I think
because it is so ridiculous, it works any other food.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I knew a guy wants to who would uh.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
He would go out to the bar and he would
just he would put like sausages and hot dogs in
his ziplock bag and he would just walk around with
some like in case meets and Casey got hungry. So
and it was ridiculous, but it was so funny. And
I think the spaghetti if it was just like a
regular I don't even know what what else would be
like they probably like a sandwich in or something. Everyone
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be like, all right, cool whatever that means. The fact
that it's spaghetti and meatballs.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Is so funny that I think it plays. I love
these guys.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
The playoffs this year, no Patrick Mahomes, no Joe Burrow
in the AFC. A lot of the faces you're used
to seeing is the NFL Playoffs? Are they better or worse?
For that?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I think they're better. I think they're better. I think
this is an exciting year where it's like this is
not the thing is, You're not gonna have like a
true passing of the torch. I think that's what kind
of makes it exciting, where it's.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Not like Patrick Mahomes is done. It's not like Joe
Burrow's done.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
But we have a year where you have some young
guys getting a shot, and then next year it's like,
can the old guys come back?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
So I'm I'm in for it. Josh Allen, Oh man,
I'm hoping.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'm obviously the biggest Josh Allen fan, so I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Hoping that maybe this is the year.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I am a little upset that we weren't able to
celebrate the Chiefs being bounced from the playoffs as much
as we should have been able to.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Time get hurt. You're trying to rob us at that moment.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Was really like that was not cool by him to tears.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Atl Right, Well, we'll at least get to celebrate when
Taylor finally dumps Travis, because that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Yeah that listen, I'm not gonna talk on that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I got enough people at my neck right now. Online.
I'm not gonna go back down that road. I got it.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
You can't fight it too fun. You can't fight a
TRUO fun battle.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Okay, understood, all right, only limited time left here, we're
heading into the Christmas break. Is always thanks to you
and PFT Man. We appreciate you guys for staying with
us all these years here on the DV Morning show.
And I know you don't do anything but your hometown
radio shows and us, so Pittsburgh truly appreciates it, and
we love you guys. So I want to ask you
as you head into this Christmas holiday top three Christmas
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movie must watches?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Mmm. Okay, let me preface everything by saying, anyone who
does the whole Diehard debate, just go.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I don't know what you with your you're weirdore.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Like, just stop, all right, I think it's Christmas vacation.
I think it's home alone. And then I'm gonna say
this is just a recency biased personal one with my kids.
The Grinch cartoon that they came out with a few
years ago. My kids absolutely love it, and so I'll
throw that in there that that's a sentimental I've been
starting to make a tradition with my kids watching that.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Is this a new one that they put out or
is it the original Gritch?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
No, it's it's fairly new. It's it's on Peacock. I
want to say, I don't know where it is, but
it's yeah, it's an animated Grinch that is I maybe
four or five years.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It's good though, and the kids love it, so I
love it. I like you make my top three.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
How psyched are you for? Because you have enough kids
now where they're all ages, A couple of them are
grown up enough to really be into this. You're you're
in full oh Dad Christmas mode, like go down Christmas
Morning in your pj's and film them opening their their
presence mode. You got to be psyched.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Oh it's so much fun. Although this year we're going
down to Florida because like the only week I have off,
and my wife is like, I do not want to
spend the entire winter in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
With no vacation.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
I was like, oh right, fair point So the big
buzz in my house has been is this is Santa
going to know that we're going.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
To be in Florida.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They're really nervous about it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So what is the How do you broach that? Do
you say that they track your phone and he knows?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
No.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
We had my buddy has a bar, one of my
best friends has a bar here in Chicago, and he
had he had Santa at the bar on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So the kids went and they told them, Hey, we're
going to be in Florida. So I think we have
it covered.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I think they He told the big man.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Himself that's smart. So that's smart.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Uh well, buddy, look man, have a great holiday. And
as I said, man, thanks for everything. Much left to
you and Pften congrats on all the success and looking
forward to talking to you guys in twenty six.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
All right, thanks guys, Happy holidays, See you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Soon all rybody, We'll see you when we come back.
Mike Persona joining us here and Guy Junker more to come.
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Speaker 6 (18:38):
Sports us Up, brought to you by Bridgeville appliance to
the Steelers offensive resurgence continued against Miami thanks to no
small part to the steel City Shove that played. The
Steelers are embracing, if not loving. Here's Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Well, we've been pretty good at it. You know, Connor's
in a nice job at it. We had a wrinkle,
you know, giving the ball to Kenny in Chicago. That
was a fifty yard game. It's not a play that
anybody really likes something across the league. There's been some
talk about trying to get it out of the league.
I think there's a way to maybe find a happy
medium with some of the splits and stuff. But the
way the rules are now, it's been a play that
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we've had success with. So Mike likes it, Arthur likes it,
and obviously Connor likes it too.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So get used to it.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
And Rogers, by the way, has no problem with his role,
and his role is going to continue out of the
stand back and observe and then gesture emphatically. That's been
criticized by some, but those criticisms are misguided.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
It's not a ten on eleven play. I've seen that
places where oh it's ten on eleven with the quarterback
going back there, just standing.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
With his hands on his hips.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
There's a lot of guys who aren't involved in that play,
usually a deep safety, and the guys on the edges
had absolute zero impact on the play. So as long
as we're going to keep sneaking it, I'm gonna keep
standing back there, police signaling first down.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Difference beings that he could be a part of that
play the other guys can't. He could be a person
who's pushing the pusher of the tush, a second pusher.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
That is.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The last thing you want him doing, getting in a
massive bodies and getting stepped on and falling on.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And which is why you put Johnny Smith back there.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Get him as far away from that as you possibly can.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well, I just want him to strike a different pose
than the three amigos. It fits him, don't you think
the turning coffee. I mean it, it's weird, it's funny looking,
it was cool the first time. I don't know a
little bit while I'm over the toush push. I hate
(20:46):
the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
That I can't stand it.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
If I wanted to watch rugby, I'd moved to frigging England.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
There you go?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Is that what they played? Rugby?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You know the thing that I always like my reaction
to the Steel City City shove or Pittsburgh plunge, whichever
you prober.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
That doesn't work, that's right. Yeah, we're not plunging into anything.
No pushing forward. That's what they call the kolonoscopy clinic.
But when they do it, every time they come out,
I'm like, oh not again. In my brain, it has
a very low success rate. In reality, it's been incredibly
(21:31):
successful for the Steelers, but.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
For some reason, when I see it, I think, no,
don't do that. Like I just don't think it looks
good when they do it. But the success rate you
can't argue with.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Yeah, and they seem to be getting better at it.
I mean the way they do it that stands to reason.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
You know, if you want to play ball control, you
got to pick up third and one, fourth and one.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Can they instead of using Cam Heyward, use Calvin Austin
and then have Mount Washington pick him up and hurl
him over the line.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I don't think that's allowed.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I had wondered that why not? What's the difference.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
I don't think you'll have to throw a guy who
says you might you might be honest something I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I know you, and I don't mean like, you know,
like over his head and like Andre the Giant, I
mean like collar belt he whoa you know, and like
just chuckle, get thrown out of a bar.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Yes, I'll do some investigating see if that's an option.
Kenny Gainwell is also a guy who you might say
is enjoying avers surgency.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Was a big player in Philly.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
The Miami game last Sunday, the latest example of the
impact Gamewell has had on the Steelers offense. It's been
kind of a revelation to see what he can do
now that Gamewell has stepped out of Saquon Barkley's massive
shadow in Philly. But Gainwell credits what he's achieving to
his new quarterback more than his expanded role.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
I mean, Aaron Rodgers, you know, him trusting me my hands,
you know, he just doing the small things and just
went out there and working. I think he just just
shows the character of him, you know, being the guy
he is, and he's just understanding the game.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
It's fascinating to me that they had Russell Wilson last year,
Who's a guy that had won the Super.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Bowl ten years ago. You know, I literally block it
out when I talk about last year. I'm like last
year when Mason took us to the playoffs, it's like
a COVID year for me. Didn't exist, Been there, done
that guy.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
And yet Rogers, who has won as many Super Bowls
as Russ, seems like a completely different component that they
have gone for him this year. And I think, you know,
I think Russ's game was starting at the tear rate
by this time last year. I think everybody had had
enough of the toxic positivity, positivity leadership, and it's just
(23:55):
a different vibe this year.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
With Aaron Rodgers, I don't think there's anybody.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
He's a way better player that knows whether a football
is blown up or stuff. Would compare Russell Wilson to
Aaron Rodgers and say, yeah, they're pretty much the same.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Guy, way better player. Russ peaked long ago and is
he was in panic mode with the Steelers this last year.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
And I was also having a discussion about Russell with
one of the other media guys yesterday and it wasn't.
This guy was insisting that Russell wasn't fake. You know
that that day Everything's great name everybody and all that.
He insisted that that's who Russell Wilson was. And I
will concede that point, but it wore people out, and
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it just it wasn't something that anybody was going to
a rally around by December. If I summed up Russell's
tenure in Pittsburgh, it wouldn't be the moon balls. It
would be the fumble in Baltimore when they could have
won the division, and then.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Running on and he tried to do too much, running up.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
To Cam Hayward after he totally butchered against Cincinnati in
which they needed to maybe get twenty five yards to
get Boswell a position to win the game. And then
he went up to Cam Hayward and started giving him
a pep talk. Yeah, and Cam just didn't want to
hear it and just kept walking. That's kind of where
they were last year. This year, like, hey we got
Anion Rodgers, stuff might happen.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So that game, Cam Hayward played with like one hundred
and two degree fever and played his ass off, and
Russell Wilson just burped up the game, just gave them
no chance to win at the end, even though the
defense set them up to win the game. And then
he immediately his reaction is to sprint over to Cam Heyward, Hey, hey, hey, hey,
don't get mad, don't get mad. We're gonna win, all right,
(25:43):
big daddy, We're gonna win. Yeah. Yeah, And he won't
even look at him because he wants to kill him.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I'm puking and it's not because I have one hundred
and two degree fever.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, guy just like busted his ass playing through a fever.
Gave you a chance to win, and you completely screwed
it up completely. Not the time to go over and
rally the troops. No, yeah, we're behind you.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
It's like if it gets screened the room, and it might,
I don't think it's going to be because of the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I think we all know that. I think we all
know that. No, who's gonna screw it up to something?
I think defensively is the problem. And injuries right now,
that's the real big issue. Guy Junker Away in on
that and more when we come back on The d
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Speaker 5 (27:36):
You, guys smattering will do.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I'm older than I usually get yeah right, I mean
some people would kill for us mattering. So the UH
Steelers this past Monday night, there were a lot of people,
myself included, wondering, oh god, will they blow this game?
Will they will? They bowed down and you know, play
down to this Dolphins team that's on a bit of
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a winning streak that seems to be propped up by
having played bad teams? Are we destined to see it?
Just a crappy football game in fridgid temperatures, And to
their credit, they did what they should have done. They
easily handled the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
Yeah, and we talked last week about the things going
against the Dolphins. Not only was their four game winning streak,
in my mind not that impressive, although when they played
the Bears, the Bears hadn't really beat anybody and they
beat them. And also, you know the lousy record of
Toua and the team in general when they played games
that are in cold weather. So but I think that
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was one of the more impressive things, not that they
won the game. That you know, they got those couple
of garbage touchdowns. There were a few guys in there
playing late in the game that you hardly ever see
the field, So I thought that was one of the
more impressive things that they kept the you know, the
foot on the gas and soundly beat them to the
point where I bet Chris Callin got called into the
office for saying, well for the audience that's still watching
(28:58):
at one point, you know, say something like that on
the air without getting called into the eight.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
That I mean Troy Aikman, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I like a man man. He's he's stopped giving an
f about anything. He'll argue with the rules analysts. He'll
tell you you crushing McDaniel for the way he handled
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Coinsworth conversely, would have been talking about Patrick Mahomes during
to steal his Dolphins.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You know, that was one of the surprises though about that.
You know, like.
Speaker 11 (29:31):
John Madden talking about Brett Fariball at the time, no
matter who was like it.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
So, but one of the surprises to.
Speaker 11 (29:37):
Me was the lack of You would have thought the
Dolphins their season is ending if they lose, they're on
a four game winning streak. Would have been playing in
the fourth quarter with their hair on fire, and they
were like, let's just get this over with. And I
didn't think they made good use of the clock at all.
Uh Yeah, I thought it was a very strange approach
by them. Maybe you know, they just felt they were
soundly beaten and they weren't going to change it.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
But that seemed kind of weird to me.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
We've been talking a lot about how the Steelers offensive
line has really come along this year, and never more
evident than Monday night when they are utilizing a fourth
string tackle who Brian Baldinger even said he didn't have
one bad rep.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
Yeah, I'm allowed no pressures and and you know, the
week before when they were forced to put him in,
they're like, oh, they gotta protect that. This is the
first snap that he's taken. And uh, he played extremely well.
Uh you know, the the throwing of the ball over
the middle occasionally it just and going deep occasionally.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Just it's it's unbelievable how much it opens things up.
That said that said, I still think they're.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
Going to have a hard time keeping up with with
Detroit's offense. I mean, Detroit well the start of the season,
winning four games in a row and they haven't won
back to back game since. But you look at the
last three teams they lost through the Rams, the Packers,
and the Eagles, that's a pretty good group right there.
And the weird thing is, you know, all games matter,
but all they have to do is beat the Ravens
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the last game of the year, and they're in these
two games.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
If they lose them both that they're still in if
they beat the Ravens. I hope it doesn't come down
to having to.
Speaker 11 (31:10):
Do that, but you know, they could also win these
next two games, lose to Baltimore and still miss the playoffs.
So I kind of wish they were playing Baltimore this weekend.
We could get it over with and then maybe you
could rest for two weeks if you win.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well, there's a scenario here if the Steelers lose and
the Ravens win, then Week seventeen against the Browns does
not matter for the Steelers. If that predicament occurs. And
you're Mike Tomlin, do you rest the key players?
Speaker 11 (31:36):
Yes, I absolutely, especially with the team this old and
a quarterback who's wearing a cast on is left arm
as it is, Yeah, I would definitely. You know, if
you're one of these teams that's like fifteen and two
and you're gonna have a buy And then we saw
that with you know, when Tony Dungee coach the Colts
and stuff, and then you rest guy and all of
(31:56):
a sudden, it's three weeks since guys played the game,
and you go out and you get beat by a
team that's been in desperation mode for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
But I don't think one week is going to make
that big of a difference.
Speaker 11 (32:07):
The thing about it is that, you know, Baltimore already
lost to the Lions. So to me, this is the
least important game of the three they have left because
because the tiebreaker will probably be they'll probably have the
same divisional record that the Steelers beat Cleveland and Baltimore
what happened to beat the Steelers?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Then you go to you know, common opponents, and.
Speaker 11 (32:25):
That loss to the Bears is hurting because, pardon me,
Baltimore beat the Bears. So if the Steelers could go
and beat the Lions and Baltimore loses the New England,
that really ups their you know, possibilities when you go
to head to head.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Guy, Any thoughts on the changing ownership with the Pittsburgh
Steelers the or the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Hoffman Group out
of Chicago adds the Penguins now to their portfolio of
over two hundred different businesses. Hockey is now one of them.
I don't know exactly what that means in terms of
newness to the sport. Certain they know how to make
(33:00):
money FSG. They knew how to make money by just
buying the team, letting it sit there, doing nothing with it,
and sold it for a humongous profit.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
It's like turning the house, except they didn't do anything exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
They didn't have to fix it up right.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yeah, in fact, they let it. They let it fall
apart a little bit.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, the deck fell off the back.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
But you know, hey, we put new shutters on the front.
I kind of like it because I never really liked
the Fenway Sports Group. Just it's still in how a
town owner though I don't like absentee owners.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
And I can number and Mike probably you two.
Speaker 11 (33:38):
Back in the day when Edward de Barblow owned the team,
you know, he'd come down from Youngstown and he wouldn't
like sit in the press box. He would stand behind
the B section at the Civic arena, just like in
the in the back, behind the last row of seats
down there, and to be and watch the games.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And you know when.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Mario owned the team, I mean Burkele wasn't here as much,
but Mario was always in the box and I just
like that hands on field.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
I mean, well that fast. You never felt the Penguins.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
Were as important as the Red Sox or even the
Liverpool soccer team.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
It was just like a corporate cold ownership.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
The worst thing to me that they did was they
alienated Lemieux and so if they treated it as an investment,
they got what they wanted. They pretty much doubled their money.
So I like that, but it's also another out of
town ownership. But these people aren't like owning all kinds
of sports enterprises to make money. EI are soccer or
hockey people. You know, they owned the team, the minor
(34:29):
league team down in Florida, the ever Blades or whatever.
Apparently you know that David Hoffman's kids all play hockey
and stuff. So but they don't have the money that
the Fenway Sports Group did either. Were used to them
spending right up to the salary cap. Is this guy
going to be able to do it? And what's gonna happen?
And one of the things to me, what's gonna happen
to you know, sports Net Pittsburgh, because that's owned co
(34:50):
co By the Pirates and Fenway Sports Group. Are they
gonna have enough money to come in here and be
able to keep the television part floating? So I think
there are some questions, but in general I like it,
mostly because I didn't like Family Sports Group.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Guy, we're coming up on our Christmas break here. Tomorrow
morning will be the last morning show for us before
we break till January fifth, and I'm wondering, are you
doing I remember asking that this last year, but I
can't remember what your answer was. Do you do the
seven fishes?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
We did?
Speaker 11 (35:19):
My wife's Italian and my mother in law used to
do that every Christmas Eve, but she's up in years now,
so she doesn't do that cooking anymore.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
So no, we will not be doing it.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Were you a fam.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Wed, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I liked all. You know.
Speaker 11 (35:33):
I had come from Randy and come from a very
small family. My brother never got married and my sister
had two kids and that's it.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
And my wife is fifty one first cousins.
Speaker 11 (35:43):
So we went from like quiet, you know, George Winston
playing on the fun mystereo dinners at my I'd go
over their house and kids were shooting dark guns and
knocking the Christmas tree over and hitting golf balls into
the fruit bunch.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
And I kind of I loved all.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
That stuff for a while. It was two totally different things.
But it's much calmer now. Everybody going up.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I miss for.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Those for you guys that abby.
Speaker 11 (36:06):
I enjoy your kids while they're young, because there's a
certain magic that has gone, you know that now that
they're all adults.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Well, the wrap bags are no fun.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The wonderment of opening the wrapping and ripping,
seeing them rip it open and you know, their eyes
get really big and everything, and then you pray you
don't disappoint.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
Your kids'cause they're never going to touch it again.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, look, wishing you and your family
a very uh merry Christmas, happy Holidays, and uh, nothing
but happiness and health going forward in twenty six. Thanks
for everything this year, buddy, Oh.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Really appreciate it. I love being on and talking with
you every week. So good holidays to you.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Well, we love having you, Thanks guy, Johnker. Brought to
you by Edgar Snyder and Associates This morning on DV
special thanks to Meryll Hodge, Big Cat Uh and our
buddy Ted whistle ted. Thank you so much. Thank you
guys coming in Today's Word Special very much tomorrow's show.
Sean Colliers overlooked Christmas movies.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
I like that good angle.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Dave Damashek will certainly do his run on Rudolph again,
his least favorite beloved Christmas tale and a hill also
looking ahead at your Steelers Lions.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Of course he's got some points on that Rudolph thing.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What do you mean, Oh, he's making some good points.
You're saying, yes, okay. I was at Gambler Brain for
a second. I'm like, wait, wait, you give its due.
Common Heeart is going to be performing for us a
special live detape performance. Last night, I went to Little
Giant Studios and hung out with them for an hour.
We recorded a bunch of live performances that you'll hear
(37:47):
back tomorrow in anticipation of their big holiday show December
twenty seventh at Mister Small's Plus Jim Wexel talking about
the brand new biography UH for Craig Wolfley and very
timely and a great gift idea for the Steeler fan
on your Christmas list, and Abby a very special in
(38:12):
studio performance from the crampst band Slayer yes spelled s
l e I g h e R.
Speaker 8 (38:21):
These are some of the most unique takes on Christmas
tunes and you can check them out.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
This is a visual thing. Slayercrampis band dot com. They're
amazing and so glad that they put in the effort
to be here. So thanks to them. Michelle's up next
with the Electric Lunch and Noon. Have a great day, everybody.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
I'm finished.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
You stay classy, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Don't touch your face?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Hey cut him type Petsburg day Baby. But now you
guys call me Ronald. Would you not eat my pants? Coronald?
Oh way, goggle ahead.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
to you by iron Workers Local Union number three. They
don't go to the office, they build it and Steelers
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