December 3, 2025 • 37 mins
Merril Hoge offers his thoughts on what the Steelers could have done differently at the start of the second half when everything started to go wrong against the Bills.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 1 (01:09):
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Speaker 5 (01:13):
That is the weird thing about ozembic is that initially
air was like just wait, you wait and see, there's
gonna be hell to pay. They'll get their come up
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Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm a grill.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
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Meryl Hodge and Mark Man. Our buddy Tad Whistle's hanging
out with us this morning as well. What's going on
over there, Abby is?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
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a high around thirty four. Because we likely can't imagine
that any of us are going to be there for
any good reason. We have not talked much about the
super Bowl, but hey.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
You never know. Adam can get us there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We just don't know. But the NFL announced this week
that the halftime performer Bad Bunny will be joined by
pregame singers Charlie Pooth, Brandy Carlyle and Coco Jones.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And I thought Coco Jones was a Disney movie. No,
this is a this is a this is a person.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
He's very sad.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Charlie Pooth is gonna have the honor of performing the
national anthem.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Charlie Pooth. Stone is like a sentence, Charlie Pooth.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It sounds like I have something in my mouth, like
I got lint. Yeah, it's like any Python Dade, Brandy
Carlisle will sing America the Beautiful, which she's probably gonna
she's amazing, incredible, Yeah, and Coco Jones does lift every
voice and sing. These pregame performances are gonna air on NBC,
Telemundo and Peacock. But Charlie Pooth has spoken out against
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the critics who claim that he is not the best
choice to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
And most of these critics are lamenting how far we've
fallen from let's say, nineteen ninety one Whitney Houston moments.
But Pooth was quick to respond, quoting that tweet in
particular and stating, I've never claimed to be as good
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a singer as Whitney Houston, but I assure you were
putting a really special arrangement together in d Major. It'll
be one of my best vocal performances.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Excuse to put his pooth on it.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, in D major For you folks following along at home,
get your pitch pipe out, get ready in D major?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Was that supposed to denote some sort of like no music? Yeah,
it's in D major? Hello?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Did you guys think I didn't know what I was doing?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
D major?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I guess maybe that's what he was doing. Maybe he
was doing a play on Kendrick.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You thought of that?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Yeah, I don't know if that's like the hardest key
to sing in or something.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
If he was trying to be like, uh, and we'll
do it in D major?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You know?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Yeah, can you handle it?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
And he's gonna wear a rock vest, you know, he's
gonna do everything he can to make it more difficult.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, I wish there were more raccoons involved in Super
Bowl performances, but they're not. But in a related story,
apparently people are making raccoons their pets.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I made it a related story.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, I want it to be.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Or that might be the halftime show next year. That
might be all we're allowed to do.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Trumble be like raccoons, nothing but raccoons they're hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
There is research that just got published in Frontiers and
Zoology that analyzed around twenty thousand photos of oh my God.
So apparently this is led by the University of arc
saw at Little Rock, and researchers found that raccoons in
urban areas have shorter snouts than rural based ones. Shorter
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snout length is a physical trait tied to domestications from
the Physical changes usually come as animals become more gentle, tolerant,
and less aggressive towards humans because people are bringing them inside.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, this is social media's fault, it really is. Yeah,
And raccoons are not animals.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
You should domesticate. They just aren't. I cannot.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I mean they're adorable, don't get me wrong, but so
are bears, right, very cute.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I got into this weird thread yesterday in which this
woman was claiming that all of the tech companies are
pushing these animal videos on us and like these AI
animal videos where they are making animals seem.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
I don't know, more human like.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, because and with the net effect of it being
like we're supposed to stop feeling the way we do
or respecting animals the way we do. Because in the
dystopian digital future, we won't like have it as many animals,
Like everything's gonna go extinct, and so they want us
to not care about animals as much.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It was a weird thread. I was really enjoying some
of the arguments. I'm like, I actually think it makes
them cuter. And I want like that one where the
possum like looks at the mirror and he's like, ah, yeah,
that's an AI. But you know, I'm mad it's AI
because I want it to be real.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I don't trust any animal videos online anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
I think they're all AI.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So many are being faked. All the ring doorbell footage
of like, oh, yeah, you've seen an uptick in bears
and wolves coming to people's doors, Like, that's not happening anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Dropping off an Amazon package, Yeah they're twenty nine minutes. Yeah,
that's not happening more.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Like all those videos are AI and it's you know, somebody,
you want them to be real.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Some of them, right, the Halloween candy ones where there
would be like possums or whatever like eating all the
candy and then they would set off the witch on
their porch. You know it and then it would like
freak the animal out. Those were like all AI.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
They were a bomber.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Ah see, I'm with you, though, I think this is
AI or not the rounds or at least the cameras
or nature cams all that kind of stuff. This is
making animals more cute to me, and it should just
actually just have an uptick in attacks.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I had a friend last year who had a vicious
squirrel attack and had to get her hand stitched up
at urgent Care because she was like, I could feed
a squirrel, right, No, rip your hand off. They actually
they only look cute. They want to eat you too.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Everything wants to eat you.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Well, no, the raccoons, you really aren't right about them.
Like breaking through in the news. This was on the
AP wire this morning.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and
drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend. An
animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday passed
out next to the store's toilet. The officer says the
raccoon then sober up after a few hours. Official says
they releasing back into the wild.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah, a raccoon went in and got drunk.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So much better than me reading it.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
By the way, yeah, give me a break. See that's AI.
See that's why they have to put the guaranteed human
up there, because you don't know. You don't know if
it's going to be abby or the computerized AI voice.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I mean, listen, I like her better.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
You can't domesticate raccoons. Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The Uh there's a bartender at one of the bars
that I go to, and uh, she's just like a
fifty year old lady, and uh, you get to a
certain point of the night and she's like, you know,
I had raccoons as a pet. It's a girl which
in Bloomfield where she lives, which is sort of like
you know, near like the valley by the busway. It's possible.
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You're thinking, oh, I guess that could have happened. And
then she brings out her phone and she's like, look
at this was sunny and this was cher and they
were adorable. No, I'm being one hundred percent serious, And uh,
did you keep me in the house?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yes, she kept them. They slept in a dresser, she said,
of course they did. So this is like in the
eighties in Bloomfield. Yes, I'll get some pictures and I'll
send them to you.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
When you said that she had raccoons as a kid,
I assumed she lived in like sarv something.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yeah, right in the city. That's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, but they just ran off one day because their
food motivated and animals they just want to do sex.
They're just like everybody else, so they can't do it
in a lady's dresser.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
It's unbecoming.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I mean, there is a weird feeling when you're like,
the raccoons ran away from me.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh, I gave you every I gave you Oreos coffee.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
What wasn't good about what we had going on here?
I gave you a dresser. Anyways, Yeah, those Bloomfield Raccoons notorious.
Good name for a softball team over there.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
All right, Tad Randy brought this up yesterday, But now
the visual of this has really made the round, so
I feel like everybody has had a chance to actually
see it and appreciate what a.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Big botch this is.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So HBO Max just released all seven seasons of mad
Men in four k unintended consequences Here the wrong files
were delivered to HBO, and many of those files did
not include the post production work, so that led to
some interesting flubs everybody can think of, like even the
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Game of Thrones coffee cups being left into the scenes.
This is kind of like the same vibe. The most
glaring mistake was probably in the season one episode Red
in the Face. So in that episode, and this is
what Randy brought up yesterday, Roger Sterling, who's played by
John Slattery, vomits in front of a group of prospective clients.
(11:10):
And this is after what you said, he comes out
for oysters.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I can't remember this, but I think he ate too
many oysters. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
In the version posted on HBO Max, you can see
two krew members at the edge of the shot managing
the puke machine behind.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Yeah, and it is. It's egregious. It ruins the vibe. Well, yeah,
the crew members that are in the shot terrible.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
But I don't understand how that aspect ratio like widened
to that point and they kept it in Like was
it as simple as they're like, oh, we'll just give
you the four K feed and they just dumped it
onto HBO Max. I mean, shouldn't there have been some
sort of editing that went on in that process, they
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would have flagged that. And the other question I have
is is, I mean, I know, it just drops, so
maybe people haven't had that much time to go through
the whole season. Is that the only instance of that happening,
because that's so far the only example I've seen used.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, I wonder if people haven't just been able to
crush all of the episodes yet, and what else is screwed.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Up in there?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You know What'll be funny though, is do you remember
when young people started watching Seinfeld and they got really
mad about how just mean everybody was, And then they
watched The Office and they got really like, they got
really mad about how not pc it was. Do you
think they'll understand that mad Men is set in a
time on purpose that these they're.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Like, this is the most sexist show ever. It's like, well,
that's kind of the best of it. That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It really is. Sometimes I get, well, I told you
I'm on my now third rewatch of the Sopranos the best.
Every time that I do that, I get mad at
the Sopranos because of, you know the way that women
are treated, you know, the language in it, and I
always get mad. I still love the show, but then
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I also I realize as I'm watching the show how
much I hate men all the time. I'm like, men
are discussed.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
It's just those men, I know, not all men. I
do love when like Tony will be like, you know,
he he just says the most awful, misogynistic things. But
then like, you know, he's got a soft spot for
a hooker, you know, like she's a good one.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I should tip her a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The other thing bad really bothers me is the music
at the bottom Bing is horrible.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It is the worst, and there's all the time, and
I'm always like, why didn't someone help somebody.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, he's in a band. I mean, he's pretty connected
to the music business.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
But the funniest song they play, yeah, uh, the funniest
music they play at the Botto Bang is the There's
an episode where they play the Canks living on a
Thin Line, which.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Is so not a song.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Like you can tell David Chase loves that song and
it is one of my favorite all time favorite songs
and it is just not a strip club song at all.
And you can tell, like he just wanted it, and
then they're thematically for the song and it book ends
the episode. But like these strippers are trying to dance
to Dave Davies.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Singing, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What are we supposed to do?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Like not exactly new Jersey stripper song.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Mike's coming in with your sports here and just a
little bit. Coach Tomlin very nice with the media, Tad,
you pointed it out earlier.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
He's even name checking them. Brook. I think it was
you who asked before. Jerry love that jacket? My man,
did you get taller?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What?
Speaker 9 (14:59):
He's not?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Seed boy, He's a treat.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
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roster looks a lot different today than it did yesterday.
For the Steelers. Sante Samuel, cornerback added to the active roster.
He won't be a practice squad promotee anymore. He's now
one of the guys, and with James Pierre in the
concussion protocol, Samuel might find himself starting against the Ravens
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on Sunday. Darius Sleigh waved reportedly a slow and the
Steelers just decided that this wasn't working, and they were
both correct.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
If he gets picked up by another team, they have
to pay what like five million of the ten million.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
How does that work?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Because assuming he's a crude half of the contract and
whatever this bonus was on the ten million dollars one
year contract.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Probably depends on how much they pay him. They did.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Can he sign for less than the contract and then
the Steelers have to pay the rest of it?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Is that how that went? I think they just have
to pay him because he's a vet okay. And then
if he gets if he gets another contract, he just
gets more, I think.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
And there's some sort of cap stipulation that whatever he
gets paid gets reduced or something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
He would probably get veteran minimum ten million was a lot. Yeah,
he's not going to get anything if he gets signed.
I can't imagine anybody would sign him. I don't know
how desperate you would have to be a corner.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I didn't think he was going to be as good
as he has been, but he he fell off a
cliff immediately. He was a liability from day one. Him
and Thornhill two guys. Thornhill was on our show talking
about that, you know, they have a chance to be historic,
just like Mike Tomlin did.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, well he's the guy that started it. And then
Tomlin doubled down on it. Oh, is that how it
went thorn Hill. Thornhill said, we have a chance to
be one of the all time great defense. That was it,
and then we then when coach came on, Yeah, great things,
and by great things, I mean historic, which they gave
up more rushing yards than the hand since nineteen seventy
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five technically got that box to Vandenburg was historic. Adam
Feelin claimed off waivers from the Vikings six foot two,
two hundred pound thirty five year old receiver who was
one hundred catch guy two years ago and an eight
catch guy this year for the Vikings, who was a
healthy scratch last Sunday against Seattle.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The good news, No one's catching the ball in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, not with JJ. No, this might work because he's
never been a guy who relied on speed to get
wide open. He's always been a contested catch, combat catch guy.
He can he can run all the routes. Mostly a
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slot guy, but he can play outside. He can go
over the middle, he can run the short outs or
deep sideline stuff, slants, whatever you need him to do,
and throw them the ball and he catches it. That's
been his history and he's been very good at that.
The Steels could really use a guy like that. And
he's buddies with Rogers, even though they never played together.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Yeah, important if you want the ball. By the way,
did you see Rogers? They had a birthday party for
Rodgers last night at his house. He's doing a little
of that extra film work in his house. Yeah, and
Ben's gronic brought a cake over, so we know Ben
shows up to those. Yeah, that's right, it's not him.
That's what you could ask. That's how you can find
out when Rogers tuts today.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, how many pieces of cake? Did DK have one? Okay? Hey,
all right, right.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
How many slices did Johnny abb none?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I tried to give him one, but he was in
the wrong spot. He just sat on the table where he.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Was supposed to He was in Wexford, right, where's that
damn hus It is funny to me though, just to
take him, you know, sco dirt going in there with
the cake. Happy birthday two you.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I was thinking maybe this weekend she could.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Uh, I don't know, throw me the ball. It works,
you know, if it's there, if I'm opening on.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Wasn't invited.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
No no cake for Friar He was just sitting there. Really,
is anybody gonna give me a piece of cake?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Eating cake?
Speaker 10 (19:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
No cake for you.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I used to have my cake and eat it too.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I didn't even see you come in your name again,
Pat Friar Mouth.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh geez.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The Steelers said, getting ready for the rage Ravens. And
they're not exactly steaming toward Baltimore with great confidence, but
the Ravens team waiting for them has likewise resembled a
steaming pile of times.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
So that's in Cleveland, Mike. You steam towards Cleveland, not Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It's gonna be a fair fight in Mike Tomlins estimation.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
We both sit at six and six and six. Both
of those positions come with some scars, certainly, but they
need to come with some lessons learned as well. And
I think the team that that displays the ability to
apply to those lessons best is gonna be the team
that's gonna be in position to control this game and
thus be in control of the North.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
There was a game, I think two years ago against
the Ravens where all Harball had to do was run
the ball, and for some reason he did not, and
we beat them.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Kind of like their game Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night against Cincinnati.
I think Henry had ten carries.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah, they put it in Lamar's hands when he's clearly
battling something right now, and you have the answer, Randall,
you always have.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
A chance because the other team has coaches too. Indeed,
quarterback Aaron Rodgers has struggled of late after initially providing
everything the Steelers hoped he would. Rogers might be better positioned
to provide more of the latter against the Ravens.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Maybe, you know, I feel good about what we can
do offensively. I don't think that we're limited in any way. Certainly,
We're going to do some things a little bit different
to accommodate present circumstances, like we worked almost exclusively out
of gun a pistol a week ago to minimize some
of that. It'll probably be probably be less of a
discussion this week. We'll see as a week wears on,
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and certainly I think he came out of the game,
at least physically from a risk injury perspective, in a
good place.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Probably less of a discussion falls short of what I
wanted to hear him say, which was to man, we're
never doing that again, right, but maybe it'll end up
that way.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
But Mason that much of a drop off where it's like,
all right, even if we can do half of the
game with Aaron Rodgers under center, that's better than given
the whole game to Mason.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know, I didn't think so, but I didn't think
so either. But it's nearly They did what they did
because they lost faith in Rudolph HP.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Tomlin and Mason have a relationship like Miles Teller and JK.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Simmons hiplash.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
It's it's really bizarre and respect you do it again,
not my tempo, Mason Duck, get in here.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Drafts on the bench. Well, you know, it's funny you
bring up Duck or funny in a coincidental kind of way.
He got Rudolph got benched in Cincinnati because he one
hopped the ball at the start of the third quarter.
Remember he got hurt against Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh, yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And then they played Duck for a little bit.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
That that was one of the funnest losses I ever watched.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And then they went back to Rudolph. Yeah, and then
they were losing a game against the really bad Bengals
team and they got the ball first drive in the
third quarter and he one hopped it and they said
that's it. And then they put Duck in and he
hit James Washington for like a seventy five yard eight
yard pass. Washington ran the rest of the way, and
then Duck was back.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
The legend of Duck.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
But uh, you know, the Rudolph of a couple of
years ago was really what they needed, you know, the
right guy in the right place at the right time.
And I think they were looking for more of that.
I think that in the uh inability to recognize that
illegal formation in the Bears, is.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
It that mental mistake?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Do you think or is it like, you know, he
gets in there and he threw a pick early in well.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
But don't forget the Washington and the throw before the
pick was at DK.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So if they're gonna try to do that crap again
this week, man's that's not gonna sail against this defense.
Even though they started out the year being kind of crappy,
Baltimore defense has gotten better.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Well thirty something against Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yeah, with Burrow. They were better with Burrow than Flacco.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I didn't think Burrow played great. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I think Flacco was kind of like, you know, flat. Yeah,
it's kind of like the Jacoby Brissett thing. You know,
it comes in for a couple of weeks, you're like, ah,
this guy look out and then they always find their level.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
They also did 'n ft Higgins, and one of the
reasons it was working was because he had fired. I
don't know, I just I haven't been impressed with Baltimore
all year. Maybe now's the time the Ravens start to ascend.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
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Speaker 6 (25:03):
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Speaker 4 (26:11):
I love that song and haven't heard it forever.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Michelle is always open to suggestions. Weekdays at noon you
build the menu in the electric Lunch.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Good song man, It's a great song.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
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Speaker 5 (26:29):
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Speaker 3 (26:41):
Meryl Hodge. Ladies and gentlemen, what's up, meryw.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
It's Maydio a great energy. Well, how can we just
keep it going? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
You know, I think I think we've got a digital
glitch and we're gonna need Jacob to call Meryl back. Uh, Jacob,
give him a call back if you would. There, Buddy,
thanks so much. And that'll give you because he had
the Mickey Mouse voice going and that happens from time
to time. All right, Jacob's coming in here to make
it happen. This does give me an opportunity to tell
people Abby about the big benefit coming up here. Rob
(27:12):
James from the Clarks just throwing this together. Feed the burg.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I love this.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
It's a benefit concert for the Rainbow Kitchen on Friday,
December nineteenth, and mister Small's an all ages show, which
is cool. Take your kids to this one. It will
feature the best in local Pittsburgh music. Joe Grisheky Bill,
Deezy Gene the Werewolf performing Abby's band Tiny Wars will
be there. Clinton Clegg of the common Heart, Kelsey Friday
(27:39):
from Brownie Mary will be there. Jim Donovan and the
Sunking Warriors, Liz ber Lynn, Jen Wurtz, Andre Costello, ched
Vincent Atti Twig and Cledonia Morgan arena. The Ramble Band
will be the house band. Get your tickets at mister
Smalls dot com or at dve dot com and we'll
see you on Friday, December nineteenth. Merril, I think we
got you now there.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Buddy, I'm here, Baby, I'm here, all.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Right, good deal. Let me ask you this. Let's start
off with this. This has been the subject of much
discussion since Sunday. Was there anything Terrell Austin or Mike
Tomlin could have done schematically to stop the Bills running attacker?
Was that truly just the Bills imposing their will?
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Well schematically, yeah, you could have done some anybody could
do some things differently act the fact, which I actually
think they're going to have to do this week, and
things like like run Blitzer is switching up for your
front shifting things. Okay, now that all being said, the
first run of the game was nineteen yards and it
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is one of the most fundamental things of defense. You
have to keep contained. Okay, so as a defender, this
is taught. In fact, I've coached for thirty years, every
age from eight to forty eight, but I started out
coaching youth football. And if anybody's ever coach football, youth football,
have been around youth football. You can design all the
(29:03):
plays you want, but everything's going to the perimeter. It
don't matter what the end of. Everybody's going to the
sack line. Right, So you get to teach kids how
to keep containing. I keep the ball on the inside
shoulder and try.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It, and they don't do it.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
You try to keep that right, Okay, that's a fundamental
that's a fundamental function in defense. Nobody contained the ball
and even tried to contain the ball on their first
I think they had three or four hours that had
total all of sixty yards where they got to the perimeter. Okay,
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should never happen in the national football.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That was interesting.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
In the fourth quarter, they play right, they play contain,
they keep the ball on the inside shoulder, and they
get two to three yards. So you know, this is
like a coach has all the power, no control. You know,
it's just like a parent has all the power, no control.
Once they to the front door of your home, once
you step inside the white lines, it's on you. So
from a structural, fundamental aspect of how you should play
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the game, we just don't do it very well. We
don't do it for sixty minutes we break down. I mean, shoot,
we lost the line of scrimmage, where if you can't
win that, you've just done.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I don't care who you are.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
I don't care who your linebackers are, your quarterback is,
your running backs are, your receivers are.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You can't win in this league. You just can't.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
And they mauled us up front on both sides of
the ball. And then when you can't fundamentally play the
run like that, you're always going to be in trouble,
you know, I mean, and they're back. I guarantee you
that in practice, that is the one thing you would
have to emphasize. He's going to come to the perimeter
because he's so dynamic, he's so quick, and he's so
lateral that if he doesn't have anything inside, he's going
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to try to find something on the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
And they had to talk about that. You had to
know that going in.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
And then the very first play, like we didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I mean, it looked like they didn't even.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Know how to play contain.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Shoot, they didn't even know the bull he'd gotten to
the outside till it was to the outside. So like
the awareness, so like that's on the players you know
that that's just on the players.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It's not all the players.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
I guess there's some scheme stuff you could do and
you're gonna need to do to help your team out,
but from a fundamental aspect, that's on the players.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Meryl, how limiting would you say is it for an
offense to go exclusively shotgun?
Speaker 9 (31:23):
Well, to me, it takes all of the physical presence
out of football. Okay, I think it's a soft way
to play. You know, when you get under center and
you got backs behind you, and here's here's what the
difference is between a guy who's under center and a
guy who's in the shotgun. When you're in the shot
and gun and your backs on one side or the other, Okay, yeah,
you can run to either side, but there's not as
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big a threat of that. That's not a And you
get to see the ball handling because the ball is
snapped back there, so there's a greater visual of what's
happening versus quarterback under center who turns around the backs
behind you, and you don't know at that point, ay,
where the ball is going to go rather to the
back or they're gonna fake it, They're gonna go right
they're gonna go left or is it gonna pulled on
to it and throw it. I mean, there's just so
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much more. There's more efficiency under center, there's more power
under there. There's more options for you. So when you're
constantly in the shotgun, I just you you limit yourself.
That's all really you're doing is you're limiting yourself. And
I've you know, I'm watching, I watched the entire league.
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I'm gonna tell you this, the really good teams. You know,
more and more people are actually getting under center. I
mean that talking about a problem phil on the same state,
Philadelphia has that problem. They can't get their quarterback under center.
It's a big dilemma over there. And they're more efficient
when they're under center. You know, especially round of the football,
you can be more I'm not saying that I should.
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I'm gonna scratch that. Running and passing, you can be
more efficient under center than you can in the shotgun.
You have more options, there's more threats, there's more concerns,
there's more things the defense has to operate through than
when the dude's in the shotgut all the time.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Meryl, there were a lot of booze on Sunday from
the home crowd there, they booed renegade, they were chanting
fire Tomlin. Uh, that's the first time something like that
has happened. From a player's perspective, How do you guys,
how did you react to that? I know there were
times when it wasn't all rosy when you were here. Uh,
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you know under Chuck Noll three River Stadium? Does that
stuff seep into the locker room?
Speaker 6 (33:28):
And then how do you kind of contain all of
that if you let it?
Speaker 9 (33:33):
If you let it, it will And then that really
comes down to the leader, because you know when I
when we first started here or I first got here,
you know, there was already the game had passed Chuck
by he didn't know what he was doing and he
needed saying. So we had to deal with that in
the locker room. But we it never went any further
than the noise. The noise is always done once we
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went in the locker room. And it was based how
Chuck handled it, you know, not that he said, hey, listen,
let's not listen to that.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It was how he coached.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Because if if you were if you ever were in
a meeting with Chuck Nole and then you heard the
outside noise. They're like, okay, they'd have no idea what
they're talking about. That guy has forgotten more than any
of us may ever know about the game still to
this day.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
You know.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
I mean, so that didn't affect us because the guy
who was leading us, we knew, had nothing passing by.
He was a char and he was as smart and
still the grace man I met.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yeah, they were. The criticism was that he wasn't as
sharp as he once was. And you guys saw the
polar opposite of that in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yes, And I'm telling you, and you really see it.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
This is true really in life, you know, you find
out who you are in the dark days or the
darknesses versus the light of your journey. And he displayed,
he displayed his most brilliant moments in our darkest moments.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
You know.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
He was the guy who led us and brought us
up out of where we were and where we needed
to go, you know, And I I just so, no,
it did not let. I didn't let the lockers.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
He didn't allow that just based.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
On how he coached and how he led all right,
Steelers heading to Baltimore this weekend. This seems like a
beatable Ravens team. The Steelers could find themselves despite all
of the tumult that is occurring here in the Steel City.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
It's tumultuous.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
They could find themselves atop the AFC North with the
win over Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
How do they do that?
Speaker 9 (35:29):
Well, you got their running games still dangerous. If you
let that guy get going, that just wrecks everything, and
honestly does. That's so that's why I was talking about schematically.
They have done this in the past, now can come
in it. Keep mind, like we talked about what can
coaches do schematically, they have done good a good job
against him most of the time, and that's going to
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be your number one priority. Once that happens to that team,
they're like, Lamar's really not playing the way he's he's
customed to playing. He's he's stolen the ball like he
did and out of Glueville, He's he's kind of all
over the play, especially if you take their running game
away from him, you know, and then the run action
game like speaking up under center, you know, they have
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a lot of effectiveness.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
When he's under center, and.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
They start to do that more with him, but that's
only when they start run the ball. Well, so you
take that away from him. Man, you got a really
good job. Not not only is this game big, like
you know, you got to lead. Now you control everything
because you got him again, You've got Cleveland, so you
can actually control your destiny. You you win the rest
of the games, which you have the ability to do
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if you just play sixty minutes of good football versus
you know, thirty and just spot football.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So that's the priority.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
They don't do that, and then then they can't run
the football. You can run the football in this team.
You just can't give up on it. You can't surrender
to you. You have to you have to decide and
be committed to that. And they do a combination of
those two things they got, they're a great chance to
win this game on the road.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Merrily.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
I am shocked. You're not calling me from a deer
stand this morning.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Well, let me tell you this. I wish that was
That's the only thing I can say. I wish.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
I was so disappointed myself.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
Okay, well I'm not disappointed. I'm just you know, it's
a little bit of a surprise. Did you have you
gotten out.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yet, not as much. Actually I was. I actually have
to have elbow surgery.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
So that's a big reason I'm not because I I
gotta get this fixed before I can I can really
do what I need to do.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Pull a bow back, you can't pull back.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Yeah, it's a little, it's a little.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
It's a little difficult, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Well, speed recovery to you.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
You know you could always use shotgun, but we all
know that's a soft way of doing it.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
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Nah?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, really, I mean not significantly. I think it's because
people who tend to carry too much weight.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, no, I never.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That people tend to carry too much weight. You know,
once they lose the weight, they see that they get.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
A little more length compared to everything else down there.
It's looking healthy. I thought you were going to say
it also shed some some LB's.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I thought that that was the first thing that we
heard with ozembic because we didn't believe the hype. Were like,
there's no way that this is a magic bullet, and
it might be just not fair because we're working so
hard at the gym and how dare anyone cheat code?
This is going to give you a tail, right, And
now we're like, nope, makes your hair grow, It actually
heals your liver, stops good for dementia, it stops you
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from smoking, and everybody looks hot now.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Brandy Bellman and the DVE Morning Show.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
That is the weird thing about ozembic is that initially
air was like just wait, you wait and see, there's
gonna be hell to pay. They'll get their come up
in and then everything in their life is better. And
we keep learning. Yeah, lose your cholesterol right, it stops
yourselves from dividing like you live forever. People can do
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math now. I did get a little too excited when
you're like it gives you life.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm a grill.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I'm kind of cold myself. On the way for your
Meryl Hodge and Mark Man. Our buddy Tad Whistle's hanging
out with us this morning as well. What's going on
over there, Abby is?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
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a high around thirty four. Because we likely can't imagine
that any of us are going to be there for
any good reason. We have not talked much about the
super Bowl, but hey.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
You never know. Adam can get us there.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
We just don't know. But the NFL announced this week
that the halftime performer Bad Bunny will be joined by
pregame singers Charlie Pooth, Brandy Carlyle and Coco Jones.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And I thought Coco Jones was a Disney movie. No,
this is a this is a this is a person.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
He's very sad.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Charlie Pooth is gonna have the honor of performing the
national anthem.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Charlie Pooth. Stone is like a sentence, Charlie Pooth.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It sounds like I have something in my mouth, like
I got lint. Yeah, it's like any Python Dade, Brandy
Carlisle will sing America the Beautiful, which she's probably gonna
she's amazing, incredible, Yeah, and Coco Jones does lift every
voice and sing. These pregame performances are gonna air on NBC,
Telemundo and Peacock. But Charlie Pooth has spoken out against
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the critics who claim that he is not the best
choice to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
And most of these critics are lamenting how far we've
fallen from let's say, nineteen ninety one Whitney Houston moments.
But Pooth was quick to respond, quoting that tweet in
particular and stating, I've never claimed to be as good
(03:21):
a singer as Whitney Houston, but I assure you were
putting a really special arrangement together in d Major. It'll
be one of my best vocal performances.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Excuse to put his pooth on it.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, in D major For you folks following along at home,
get your pitch pipe out, get ready in D major?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Was that supposed to denote some sort of like no music? Yeah,
it's in D major? Hello?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Did you guys think I didn't know what I was doing?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
D major?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I guess maybe that's what he was doing. Maybe he
was doing a play on Kendrick.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
You thought of that?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Yeah, I don't know if that's like the hardest key
to sing in or something.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
If he was trying to be like, uh, and we'll
do it in D major?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You know?
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Yeah, can you handle it?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
And he's gonna wear a rock vest, you know, he's
gonna do everything he can to make it more difficult.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, I wish there were more raccoons involved in Super
Bowl performances, but they're not. But in a related story,
apparently people are making raccoons their pets.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I made it a related story.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, I want it to be.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Or that might be the halftime show next year. That
might be all we're allowed to do.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Trumble be like raccoons, nothing but raccoons they're hilarious.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
There is research that just got published in Frontiers and
Zoology that analyzed around twenty thousand photos of oh my God.
So apparently this is led by the University of arc
saw at Little Rock, and researchers found that raccoons in
urban areas have shorter snouts than rural based ones. Shorter
(05:07):
snout length is a physical trait tied to domestications from
the Physical changes usually come as animals become more gentle, tolerant,
and less aggressive towards humans because people are bringing them inside.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, this is social media's fault, it really is. Yeah,
And raccoons are not animals.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
You should domesticate. They just aren't. I cannot.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I mean they're adorable, don't get me wrong, but so
are bears, right, very cute.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I got into this weird thread yesterday in which this
woman was claiming that all of the tech companies are
pushing these animal videos on us and like these AI
animal videos where they are making animals seem.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
I don't know, more human like.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yeah, because and with the net effect of it being
like we're supposed to stop feeling the way we do
or respecting animals the way we do. Because in the
dystopian digital future, we won't like have it as many animals,
Like everything's gonna go extinct, and so they want us
to not care about animals as much.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It was a weird thread. I was really enjoying some
of the arguments. I'm like, I actually think it makes
them cuter. And I want like that one where the
possum like looks at the mirror and he's like, ah, yeah,
that's an AI. But you know, I'm mad it's AI
because I want it to be real.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I don't trust any animal videos online anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
I think they're all AI.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So many are being faked. All the ring doorbell footage
of like, oh, yeah, you've seen an uptick in bears
and wolves coming to people's doors, Like, that's not happening anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Dropping off an Amazon package, Yeah they're twenty nine minutes. Yeah,
that's not happening more.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Like all those videos are AI and it's you know, somebody,
you want them to be real.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Some of them, right, the Halloween candy ones where there
would be like possums or whatever like eating all the
candy and then they would set off the witch on
their porch. You know it and then it would like
freak the animal out. Those were like all AI.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
They were a bomber.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Ah see, I'm with you, though, I think this is
AI or not the rounds or at least the cameras
or nature cams all that kind of stuff. This is
making animals more cute to me, and it should just
actually just have an uptick in attacks.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I had a friend last year who had a vicious
squirrel attack and had to get her hand stitched up
at urgent Care because she was like, I could feed
a squirrel, right, No, rip your hand off. They actually
they only look cute. They want to eat you too.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Everything wants to eat you.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Well, no, the raccoons, you really aren't right about them.
Like breaking through in the news. This was on the
AP wire this morning.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and
drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend. An
animal control officer says the raccoon was found Saturday passed
out next to the store's toilet. The officer says the
raccoon then sober up after a few hours. Official says
they releasing back into the wild.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Yeah, a raccoon went in and got drunk.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So much better than me reading it.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
By the way, yeah, give me a break. See that's AI.
See that's why they have to put the guaranteed human
up there, because you don't know. You don't know if
it's going to be abby or the computerized AI voice.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I mean, listen, I like her better.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
You can't domesticate raccoons. Don't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The Uh there's a bartender at one of the bars
that I go to, and uh, she's just like a
fifty year old lady, and uh, you get to a
certain point of the night and she's like, you know,
I had raccoons as a pet. It's a girl which
in Bloomfield where she lives, which is sort of like
you know, near like the valley by the busway. It's possible.
(09:07):
You're thinking, oh, I guess that could have happened. And
then she brings out her phone and she's like, look
at this was sunny and this was cher and they
were adorable. No, I'm being one hundred percent serious, And uh,
did you keep me in the house?
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yes, she kept them. They slept in a dresser, she said,
of course they did. So this is like in the
eighties in Bloomfield. Yes, I'll get some pictures and I'll
send them to you.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
When you said that she had raccoons as a kid,
I assumed she lived in like sarv something.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yeah, right in the city. That's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, but they just ran off one day because their
food motivated and animals they just want to do sex.
They're just like everybody else, so they can't do it
in a lady's dresser.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
It's unbecoming.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I mean, there is a weird feeling when you're like,
the raccoons ran away from me.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Oh, I gave you every I gave you Oreos coffee.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
What wasn't good about what we had going on here?
I gave you a dresser. Anyways, Yeah, those Bloomfield Raccoons notorious.
Good name for a softball team over there.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
All right, Tad Randy brought this up yesterday, But now
the visual of this has really made the round, so
I feel like everybody has had a chance to actually
see it and appreciate what a.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Big botch this is.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
So HBO Max just released all seven seasons of mad
Men in four k unintended consequences Here the wrong files
were delivered to HBO, and many of those files did
not include the post production work, so that led to
some interesting flubs everybody can think of, like even the
(10:50):
Game of Thrones coffee cups being left into the scenes.
This is kind of like the same vibe. The most
glaring mistake was probably in the season one episode Red
in the Face. So in that episode, and this is
what Randy brought up yesterday, Roger Sterling, who's played by
John Slattery, vomits in front of a group of prospective clients.
(11:10):
And this is after what you said, he comes out
for oysters.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I can't remember this, but I think he ate too
many oysters. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
In the version posted on HBO Max, you can see
two krew members at the edge of the shot managing
the puke machine behind.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Yeah, and it is. It's egregious. It ruins the vibe. Well, yeah,
the crew members that are in the shot terrible.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
But I don't understand how that aspect ratio like widened
to that point and they kept it in Like was
it as simple as they're like, oh, we'll just give
you the four K feed and they just dumped it
onto HBO Max. I mean, shouldn't there have been some
sort of editing that went on in that process, they
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would have flagged that. And the other question I have
is is, I mean, I know, it just drops, so
maybe people haven't had that much time to go through
the whole season. Is that the only instance of that happening,
because that's so far the only example I've seen used.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, I wonder if people haven't just been able to
crush all of the episodes yet, and what else is screwed.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Up in there?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
You know What'll be funny though, is do you remember
when young people started watching Seinfeld and they got really
mad about how just mean everybody was, And then they
watched The Office and they got really like, they got
really mad about how not pc it was. Do you
think they'll understand that mad Men is set in a
time on purpose that these they're.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Like, this is the most sexist show ever. It's like, well,
that's kind of the best of it. That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It really is. Sometimes I get, well, I told you
I'm on my now third rewatch of the Sopranos the best.
Every time that I do that, I get mad at
the Sopranos because of, you know the way that women
are treated, you know, the language in it, and I
always get mad. I still love the show, but then
(13:06):
I also I realize as I'm watching the show how
much I hate men all the time. I'm like, men
are discussed.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
It's just those men, I know, not all men. I
do love when like Tony will be like, you know,
he he just says the most awful, misogynistic things. But
then like, you know, he's got a soft spot for
a hooker, you know, like she's a good one.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I should tip her a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The other thing bad really bothers me is the music
at the bottom Bing is horrible.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It is the worst, and there's all the time, and
I'm always like, why didn't someone help somebody.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, he's in a band. I mean, he's pretty connected
to the music business.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
But the funniest song they play, yeah, uh, the funniest
music they play at the Botto Bang is the There's
an episode where they play the Canks living on a
Thin Line, which.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Is so not a song.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Like you can tell David Chase loves that song and
it is one of my favorite all time favorite songs
and it is just not a strip club song at all.
And you can tell, like he just wanted it, and
then they're thematically for the song and it book ends
the episode. But like these strippers are trying to dance
to Dave Davies.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Singing, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What are we supposed to do?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Like not exactly new Jersey stripper song.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Mike's coming in with your sports here and just a
little bit. Coach Tomlin very nice with the media, Tad,
you pointed it out earlier.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
He's even name checking them. Brook. I think it was
you who asked before. Jerry love that jacket? My man,
did you get taller?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What?
Speaker 9 (14:59):
He's not?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Seed boy, He's a treat.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
Chad Tyson on DV is shifting gears all afternoon. First
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Lots of talk about Mike pursuing with your sports right
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Sports is I brought to you by Bridgeville Appliance. The
roster looks a lot different today than it did yesterday.
For the Steelers. Sante Samuel, cornerback added to the active roster.
He won't be a practice squad promotee anymore. He's now
one of the guys, and with James Pierre in the
concussion protocol, Samuel might find himself starting against the Ravens
(15:54):
on Sunday. Darius Sleigh waved reportedly a slow and the
Steelers just decided that this wasn't working, and they were
both correct.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
If he gets picked up by another team, they have
to pay what like five million of the ten million.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
How does that work?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Because assuming he's a crude half of the contract and
whatever this bonus was on the ten million dollars one
year contract.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Probably depends on how much they pay him. They did.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Can he sign for less than the contract and then
the Steelers have to pay the rest of it?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Is that how that went? I think they just have
to pay him because he's a vet okay. And then
if he gets if he gets another contract, he just
gets more, I think.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
And there's some sort of cap stipulation that whatever he
gets paid gets reduced or something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
He would probably get veteran minimum ten million was a lot. Yeah,
he's not going to get anything if he gets signed.
I can't imagine anybody would sign him. I don't know
how desperate you would have to be a corner.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I didn't think he was going to be as good
as he has been, but he he fell off a
cliff immediately. He was a liability from day one. Him
and Thornhill two guys. Thornhill was on our show talking
about that, you know, they have a chance to be historic,
just like Mike Tomlin did.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, well he's the guy that started it. And then
Tomlin doubled down on it. Oh, is that how it
went thorn Hill. Thornhill said, we have a chance to
be one of the all time great defense. That was it,
and then we then when coach came on, Yeah, great things,
and by great things, I mean historic, which they gave
up more rushing yards than the hand since nineteen seventy
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five technically got that box to Vandenburg was historic. Adam
Feelin claimed off waivers from the Vikings six foot two,
two hundred pound thirty five year old receiver who was
one hundred catch guy two years ago and an eight
catch guy this year for the Vikings, who was a
healthy scratch last Sunday against Seattle.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The good news, No one's catching the ball in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, not with JJ. No, this might work because he's
never been a guy who relied on speed to get
wide open. He's always been a contested catch, combat catch guy.
He can he can run all the routes. Mostly a
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slot guy, but he can play outside. He can go
over the middle, he can run the short outs or
deep sideline stuff, slants, whatever you need him to do,
and throw them the ball and he catches it. That's
been his history and he's been very good at that.
The Steels could really use a guy like that. And
he's buddies with Rogers, even though they never played together.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Yeah, important if you want the ball. By the way,
did you see Rogers? They had a birthday party for
Rodgers last night at his house. He's doing a little
of that extra film work in his house. Yeah, and
Ben's gronic brought a cake over, so we know Ben
shows up to those. Yeah, that's right, it's not him.
That's what you could ask. That's how you can find
out when Rogers tuts today.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah, how many pieces of cake? Did DK have one? Okay? Hey,
all right, right.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
How many slices did Johnny abb none?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I tried to give him one, but he was in
the wrong spot. He just sat on the table where he.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Was supposed to He was in Wexford, right, where's that
damn hus It is funny to me though, just to
take him, you know, sco dirt going in there with
the cake. Happy birthday two you.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I was thinking maybe this weekend she could.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Uh, I don't know, throw me the ball. It works,
you know, if it's there, if I'm opening on.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Wasn't invited.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
No no cake for Friar He was just sitting there. Really,
is anybody gonna give me a piece of cake?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Eating cake?
Speaker 10 (19:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:43):
No cake for you.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I used to have my cake and eat it too.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I didn't even see you come in your name again,
Pat Friar Mouth.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh geez.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The Steelers said, getting ready for the rage Ravens. And
they're not exactly steaming toward Baltimore with great confidence, but
the Ravens team waiting for them has likewise resembled a
steaming pile of times.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
So that's in Cleveland, Mike. You steam towards Cleveland, not Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It's gonna be a fair fight in Mike Tomlins estimation.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
We both sit at six and six and six. Both
of those positions come with some scars, certainly, but they
need to come with some lessons learned as well. And
I think the team that that displays the ability to
apply to those lessons best is gonna be the team
that's gonna be in position to control this game and
thus be in control of the North.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
There was a game, I think two years ago against
the Ravens where all Harball had to do was run
the ball, and for some reason he did not, and
we beat them.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Kind of like their game Thursday night, Thanksgiving Night against Cincinnati.
I think Henry had ten carries.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah, they put it in Lamar's hands when he's clearly
battling something right now, and you have the answer, Randall,
you always have.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
A chance because the other team has coaches too. Indeed,
quarterback Aaron Rodgers has struggled of late after initially providing
everything the Steelers hoped he would. Rogers might be better positioned
to provide more of the latter against the Ravens.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
Maybe, you know, I feel good about what we can
do offensively. I don't think that we're limited in any way. Certainly,
We're going to do some things a little bit different
to accommodate present circumstances, like we worked almost exclusively out
of gun a pistol a week ago to minimize some
of that. It'll probably be probably be less of a
discussion this week. We'll see as a week wears on,
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and certainly I think he came out of the game,
at least physically from a risk injury perspective, in a
good place.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Probably less of a discussion falls short of what I
wanted to hear him say, which was to man, we're
never doing that again, right, but maybe it'll end up
that way.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
But Mason that much of a drop off where it's like,
all right, even if we can do half of the
game with Aaron Rodgers under center, that's better than given
the whole game to Mason.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
You know, I didn't think so, but I didn't think
so either. But it's nearly They did what they did
because they lost faith in Rudolph HP.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Tomlin and Mason have a relationship like Miles Teller and JK.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Simmons hiplash.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
It's it's really bizarre and respect you do it again,
not my tempo, Mason Duck, get in here.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Drafts on the bench. Well, you know, it's funny you
bring up Duck or funny in a coincidental kind of way.
He got Rudolph got benched in Cincinnati because he one
hopped the ball at the start of the third quarter.
Remember he got hurt against Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh, yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
And then they played Duck for a little bit.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
That that was one of the funnest losses I ever watched.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And then they went back to Rudolph. Yeah, and then
they were losing a game against the really bad Bengals
team and they got the ball first drive in the
third quarter and he one hopped it and they said
that's it. And then they put Duck in and he
hit James Washington for like a seventy five yard eight
yard pass. Washington ran the rest of the way, and
then Duck was back.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
The legend of Duck.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
But uh, you know, the Rudolph of a couple of
years ago was really what they needed, you know, the
right guy in the right place at the right time.
And I think they were looking for more of that.
I think that in the uh inability to recognize that
illegal formation in the Bears, is.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
It that mental mistake?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Do you think or is it like, you know, he
gets in there and he threw a pick early in well.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
But don't forget the Washington and the throw before the
pick was at DK.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So if they're gonna try to do that crap again
this week, man's that's not gonna sail against this defense.
Even though they started out the year being kind of crappy,
Baltimore defense has gotten better.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Well thirty something against Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Cincinnati.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yeah, with Burrow. They were better with Burrow than Flacco.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I didn't think Burrow played great. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I think Flacco was kind of like, you know, flat. Yeah,
it's kind of like the Jacoby Brissett thing. You know,
it comes in for a couple of weeks, you're like, ah,
this guy look out and then they always find their level.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
They also did 'n ft Higgins, and one of the
reasons it was working was because he had fired. I
don't know, I just I haven't been impressed with Baltimore
all year. Maybe now's the time the Ravens start to ascend.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
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Speaker 4 (26:11):
I love that song and haven't heard it forever.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Michelle is always open to suggestions. Weekdays at noon you
build the menu in the electric Lunch.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Good song man, It's a great song.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
On DV, they say, if you want to go fast,
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Speaker 3 (26:41):
Meryl Hodge. Ladies and gentlemen, what's up, meryw.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
It's Maydio a great energy. Well, how can we just
keep it going? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
You know, I think I think we've got a digital
glitch and we're gonna need Jacob to call Meryl back. Uh, Jacob,
give him a call back if you would. There, Buddy,
thanks so much. And that'll give you because he had
the Mickey Mouse voice going and that happens from time
to time. All right, Jacob's coming in here to make
it happen. This does give me an opportunity to tell
people Abby about the big benefit coming up here. Rob
(27:12):
James from the Clarks just throwing this together. Feed the burg.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I love this.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
It's a benefit concert for the Rainbow Kitchen on Friday,
December nineteenth, and mister Small's an all ages show, which
is cool. Take your kids to this one. It will
feature the best in local Pittsburgh music. Joe Grisheky Bill,
Deezy Gene the Werewolf performing Abby's band Tiny Wars will
be there. Clinton Clegg of the common Heart, Kelsey Friday
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from Brownie Mary will be there. Jim Donovan and the
Sunking Warriors, Liz ber Lynn, Jen Wurtz, Andre Costello, ched
Vincent Atti Twig and Cledonia Morgan arena. The Ramble Band
will be the house band. Get your tickets at mister
Smalls dot com or at dve dot com and we'll
see you on Friday, December nineteenth. Merril, I think we
got you now there.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Buddy, I'm here, Baby, I'm here, all.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Right, good deal. Let me ask you this. Let's start
off with this. This has been the subject of much
discussion since Sunday. Was there anything Terrell Austin or Mike
Tomlin could have done schematically to stop the Bills running attacker?
Was that truly just the Bills imposing their will?
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Well schematically, yeah, you could have done some anybody could
do some things differently act the fact, which I actually
think they're going to have to do this week, and
things like like run Blitzer is switching up for your
front shifting things. Okay, now that all being said, the
first run of the game was nineteen yards and it
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is one of the most fundamental things of defense. You
have to keep contained. Okay, so as a defender, this
is taught. In fact, I've coached for thirty years, every
age from eight to forty eight, but I started out
coaching youth football. And if anybody's ever coach football, youth football,
have been around youth football. You can design all the
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plays you want, but everything's going to the perimeter. It
don't matter what the end of. Everybody's going to the
sack line. Right, So you get to teach kids how
to keep containing. I keep the ball on the inside
shoulder and try.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It, and they don't do it.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
You try to keep that right, Okay, that's a fundamental
that's a fundamental function in defense. Nobody contained the ball
and even tried to contain the ball on their first
I think they had three or four hours that had
total all of sixty yards where they got to the perimeter. Okay,
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should never happen in the national football.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That was interesting.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
In the fourth quarter, they play right, they play contain,
they keep the ball on the inside shoulder, and they
get two to three yards. So you know, this is
like a coach has all the power, no control. You know,
it's just like a parent has all the power, no control.
Once they to the front door of your home, once
you step inside the white lines, it's on you. So
from a structural, fundamental aspect of how you should play
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the game, we just don't do it very well. We
don't do it for sixty minutes we break down. I mean, shoot,
we lost the line of scrimmage, where if you can't
win that, you've just done.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I don't care who you are.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
I don't care who your linebackers are, your quarterback is,
your running backs are, your receivers are.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You can't win in this league. You just can't.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
And they mauled us up front on both sides of
the ball. And then when you can't fundamentally play the
run like that, you're always going to be in trouble,
you know, I mean, and they're back. I guarantee you
that in practice, that is the one thing you would
have to emphasize. He's going to come to the perimeter
because he's so dynamic, he's so quick, and he's so
lateral that if he doesn't have anything inside, he's going
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to try to find something on the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
And they had to talk about that. You had to
know that going in.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
And then the very first play, like we didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I mean, it looked like they didn't even.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Know how to play contain.
Speaker 9 (30:56):
Shoot, they didn't even know the bull he'd gotten to
the outside till it was to the outside. So like
the awareness, so like that's on the players you know
that that's just on the players.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
It's not all the players.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
I guess there's some scheme stuff you could do and
you're gonna need to do to help your team out,
but from a fundamental aspect, that's on the players.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Meryl, how limiting would you say is it for an
offense to go exclusively shotgun?
Speaker 9 (31:23):
Well, to me, it takes all of the physical presence
out of football. Okay, I think it's a soft way
to play. You know, when you get under center and
you got backs behind you, and here's here's what the
difference is between a guy who's under center and a
guy who's in the shotgun. When you're in the shot
and gun and your backs on one side or the other, Okay, yeah,
you can run to either side, but there's not as
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big a threat of that. That's not a And you
get to see the ball handling because the ball is
snapped back there, so there's a greater visual of what's
happening versus quarterback under center who turns around the backs
behind you, and you don't know at that point, ay,
where the ball is going to go rather to the
back or they're gonna fake it, They're gonna go right
they're gonna go left or is it gonna pulled on
to it and throw it. I mean, there's just so
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much more. There's more efficiency under center, there's more power
under there. There's more options for you. So when you're
constantly in the shotgun, I just you you limit yourself.
That's all really you're doing is you're limiting yourself. And
I've you know, I'm watching, I watched the entire league.
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I'm gonna tell you this, the really good teams. You know,
more and more people are actually getting under center. I
mean that talking about a problem phil on the same state,
Philadelphia has that problem. They can't get their quarterback under center.
It's a big dilemma over there. And they're more efficient
when they're under center. You know, especially round of the football,
you can be more I'm not saying that I should.
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I'm gonna scratch that. Running and passing, you can be
more efficient under center than you can in the shotgun.
You have more options, there's more threats, there's more concerns,
there's more things the defense has to operate through than
when the dude's in the shotgut all the time.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Meryl, there were a lot of booze on Sunday from
the home crowd there, they booed renegade, they were chanting
fire Tomlin. Uh, that's the first time something like that
has happened. From a player's perspective, How do you guys,
how did you react to that? I know there were
times when it wasn't all rosy when you were here. Uh,
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you know under Chuck Noll three River Stadium? Does that
stuff seep into the locker room?
Speaker 6 (33:28):
And then how do you kind of contain all of
that if you let it?
Speaker 9 (33:33):
If you let it, it will And then that really
comes down to the leader, because you know when I
when we first started here or I first got here,
you know, there was already the game had passed Chuck
by he didn't know what he was doing and he
needed saying. So we had to deal with that in
the locker room. But we it never went any further
than the noise. The noise is always done once we
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went in the locker room. And it was based how
Chuck handled it, you know, not that he said, hey, listen,
let's not listen to that.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It was how he coached.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Because if if you were if you ever were in
a meeting with Chuck Nole and then you heard the
outside noise. They're like, okay, they'd have no idea what
they're talking about. That guy has forgotten more than any
of us may ever know about the game still to
this day.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
You know.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
I mean, so that didn't affect us because the guy
who was leading us, we knew, had nothing passing by.
He was a char and he was as smart and
still the grace man I met.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yeah, they were. The criticism was that he wasn't as
sharp as he once was. And you guys saw the
polar opposite of that in the locker room.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yes, And I'm telling you, and you really see it.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
This is true really in life, you know, you find
out who you are in the dark days or the
darknesses versus the light of your journey. And he displayed,
he displayed his most brilliant moments in our darkest moments.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
You know.
Speaker 9 (34:55):
He was the guy who led us and brought us
up out of where we were and where we needed
to go, you know, And I I just so, no,
it did not let. I didn't let the lockers.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
He didn't allow that just based.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
On how he coached and how he led all right,
Steelers heading to Baltimore this weekend. This seems like a
beatable Ravens team. The Steelers could find themselves despite all
of the tumult that is occurring here in the Steel City.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
It's tumultuous.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
They could find themselves atop the AFC North with the
win over Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
How do they do that?
Speaker 9 (35:29):
Well, you got their running games still dangerous. If you
let that guy get going, that just wrecks everything, and
honestly does. That's so that's why I was talking about schematically.
They have done this in the past, now can come
in it. Keep mind, like we talked about what can
coaches do schematically, they have done good a good job
against him most of the time, and that's going to
(35:50):
be your number one priority. Once that happens to that team,
they're like, Lamar's really not playing the way he's he's
customed to playing. He's he's stolen the ball like he
did and out of Glueville, He's he's kind of all
over the play, especially if you take their running game
away from him, you know, and then the run action
game like speaking up under center, you know, they have
(36:10):
a lot of effectiveness.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
When he's under center, and.
Speaker 9 (36:12):
They start to do that more with him, but that's
only when they start run the ball. Well, so you
take that away from him. Man, you got a really
good job. Not not only is this game big, like
you know, you got to lead. Now you control everything
because you got him again, You've got Cleveland, so you
can actually control your destiny. You you win the rest
of the games, which you have the ability to do
(36:33):
if you just play sixty minutes of good football versus
you know, thirty and just spot football.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
So that's the priority.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
They don't do that, and then then they can't run
the football. You can run the football in this team.
You just can't give up on it. You can't surrender
to you. You have to you have to decide and
be committed to that. And they do a combination of
those two things they got, they're a great chance to
win this game on the road.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Merrily.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
I am shocked. You're not calling me from a deer
stand this morning.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Well, let me tell you this. I wish that was
That's the only thing I can say. I wish.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
I was so disappointed myself.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
Okay, well I'm not disappointed. I'm just you know, it's
a little bit of a surprise. Did you have you
gotten out.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yet, not as much. Actually I was. I actually have
to have elbow surgery.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
So that's a big reason I'm not because I I
gotta get this fixed before I can I can really
do what I need to do.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Pull a bow back, you can't pull back.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Yeah, it's a little, it's a little.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
It's a little difficult, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Well, speed recovery to you.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
You know you could always use shotgun, but we all
know that's a soft way of doing it.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
So MARYL love you, Brother Meryl.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Brought to you by a Castle Rock Hormone Health in
South Hills, Key this morning on d V
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