December 4, 2025 • 51 mins
Big Cat defends his boy Jersey Jerry after Dino Tomlin announces he want to fight Jerry after trashing his dad. Guy Junker calls in to discuss the head coaching vacancy at Penn State and the uproar against Mike Tomlin.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Guaranteed human.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
A festive ice rink installed in Italy has started some
controversy for insulting the memory of Lucciano Pavarotti. The rank
featured a raised platform and clear plexiglass barriers around a
bronze monument of the opera grate. Skaters were encouraged via
social media to skate around and high five the statue,
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which for some reason started to sink.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And so it is way too small.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
He kind of looks like a munchin.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Because every joke about Pavaratti was about his weight. And
then they created a statue that collapsed the ice underneath him,
and he's knee deep in an ice rink, and it's
like a real insult to a guy who battled fat
jokes his whole life.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You're really seeing the fattest part of him, right.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Get those ankles out of there, so Spindley, he looks
like Tim Conway doing Dorf.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Brandy Bellman and the DVE Morning Show.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Jed Whistles hanging out with us this morning, and yeah,
that that Pavarotti.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Statue is hilarious. It's so damn funny.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
On the way for you, Big catt'll bey joining us
shortly ten minutes or so. Guy Jonker at nine forty five, Abby,
He's got a news update for you.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
First.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What's going on? Abby?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
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and eighty three million. Tickets are two bucks each, with
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hundred and ninety two million.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
So what I like to do is go buy a
bunch of those and then you give them out as like, hey,
this is your birthday gift. I know in a couple
of months, but here you go. It's like, seems like
a cheap gift at face, but what it might be
is a life changing ticket.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I've given you potentially enough money to ruin your life.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I sent Molly a scratch off Molly offa butt for
her birthday and it hit for.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
G Oh, I know, I love the like the you know,
the small to medium sized prizes. When people hit, it's like, yeah,
so and so hit for five grand on a scratch off,
and then the hater of the group outs themselves and
it's like five grand more like thirty eight hundred. Okay, man, yeah,
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it's still cool, right, still cool.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Uncle Sam takes a bite, you know, Okay, whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So we do this thing every year for Christmas in
our family because there's about fourteen of us and everybody's
a bit older, and instead of having to buy gifts
for every single person, we do one banging gift and
then do like a Rando Sanda game where you know,
you pull a number and then you pick a gift
or whatever. But the limit is fifty bucks because it
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used to be like, oh, ten dollars and then you'd
get a crappy thing. But nobody wanted all the crappy
stuff and it was dumb, and so I was like,
why don't we just buy each other like something that's awesome.
And so every year I've got like really cool things
I have, like a good like brevel tee thing that
I like, and a good blanket and things that I'm
legitimately using.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Now, if I got fifty dollars in lottery tickets.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That works, right, I think, so I'll take it all
the time.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Think of the joy, just the anticipation as you pull
out the quarter and start scratching a lucky quarter.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yes, this quarter, Oh, yes, this one, this is the one. Yes.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
When you're in those situations where everyone's pulling and doing
their fifty dollars thing, there's always one person who's like, yeah, fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like a guideline, you know, like the.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
One uncle that drops two fifty and you know that
gifts out there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, but there is one.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
There's always some and I'm above the rules of the
mom that's you, no, not me.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh yeah, well you know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Also there's been bidets and things like that where it's
a little, it gets a little.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Those are like not an actual bedet throne. It's like
you add it to the toilet.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yes, yes, I've won the day before and I'm like
America remains of the day. Ah, all right. Tera reads
claim that someone slipped a drug in her drink doesn't
hold water with cops.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Who have found no video you did Tara.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
To back up her allegation, Rosemont police told TMZ they
reviewed surveillance footage from the Chicago area hotel and there
is no indication, at least based on the videos that
they saw that anyone drugged her. Last month, Tara was
taken out of the DoubleTree Hotel on a stretcher, loaded
into an ambulance, and driven to a hotel. She says
that she left her drink unattended at the bar and.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
She believes that she was drug.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Cops are waiting to get any medical records from her
hospital stay to confirm if tests were done. She says
she believes the tests were done, but as of now,
Rosemont PD says that you have no evidence of a crime,
and she says Tara, that is bottom line is no
one ends up in the hospital incapacitated over a drink.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Uh, you know, I disagree.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You know, it's been a real problem in some places
right where, like there's rampant people, big time dosing people's
drinks and college campuses. I know, it's a big thing.
So it's a very serious problem. It just was like,
in that circumstance, it didn't make a whole lot of sense.
She really just kind of has crashed out so hard.
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I feel bad for her.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I just don't know. She has never recovered.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
She doesn't have anything to like, you know, Britney has
a lot of wealth, you know, and Terror is just
kind of like you were famous and now you're a
mess and people got at what a mess you are
and that's all she has.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's kind of it kind of makes me sad. That's
a big bummer.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, I think the last thing she did of
note was Sharknato.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Right, so she went from the Big Lebowski to Shark Nato.
It's a rough ride.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, There's been plenty of times that I know that
I've been out and all of a sudden the drunk
has caught up with me. And I was convinced in
the moment, I'm like, did someone drug me? And I'll
hang on to that for maybe a minute or two
before I start doing like the calculus meme in my head.
And then I realized it was megged me.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
It's me.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I haven't eaten in two days.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I ran five miles, I didn't drink any water, and
I came here in order to Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, yeah, I've been Who did this?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You hear Tim Robinson in the hot Dog costume. We're
all looking for this.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
There are relationship experts who say it's not a good
sign if a couple never fights, But that's the rarefied
air that Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift occupy.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Travis and his.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Brother Jason had George Clooney on their New Heights podcast
and they were talking about how George and his wife
Amal say they never fight, and Travis said that.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He and Taylor have never had an argument.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Of course, they've only been together for two and a
half years. As faithful as Travis is to Taylor, he's
also a team player, and he says that when they
started dating, he asked the team to not play Taylor's
music in the stadium.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I guess that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
They didn't want to mix the I don't want to
cross the stretch.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's just good common sense there. But you don't want
to hear your fiance get booed at the game. Plus
she's at the game half the time and she doesn't
want to hear that.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I think not fighting is not a good thing, but
also I think constant fighting is also bad. And the
way you fight is very very important. Fights need to
be productive, not counter productive, correct, They don't. They're not
supposed to leave wounds and then you move on. It's
supposed to be something where you fight and you.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Come to a conclusion and you either kind of both
compromise a little bit or one person sees the errors
of their way, and then you move forward understanding.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But the whole like you know, just beating the hell
out of each other and then you know, like like
brothers punching each other in the face for a while
when they're drunk and then never talking about it again.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's not good.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
The metaphor of that in a relationship not good. To
just land a bunch of punches and hope it goes away.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It never does. Got to work through it.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
And then just you know, remember when the fight's wrapped
up and everything's cool again, just take out your notebook
and really keep score.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's that's important too.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
How much time to Travis and Taylor really spend together.
I mean, you know, they're still in the honeymoon phase.
They've been together two and a half years. They're both
extremely busy people. That's like eight months of real time
maybe I.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Know, but I feel like anytime that they do have
a significant amount of time together, he like just comes
into the room and she's like typing on a desk
and you know, and dealing with her empire.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And he's like, uh, what are you doing? And she
just picks up a ball and throws it to the other room.
And her.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Celebrity couples in general, but those two in particular, that's
what it's like.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
We never fight, and it's like you don't see each
you don't hang out durable. It's like you don't know
a thing about each other yet.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's like if you seen each other has the flu,
it's like, yeah, cool, Yeah, they see each other.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Barf.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
No, you see nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I guarantee you she's seen him barf No, like from eating.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Too many wings, like not like from like being sick
or anything. Yeah, he's just gonna Taylor, watch this, watch this.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You know, I could do it on command.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
No, dude, Him and his brother a drink like nine
hundred beers and just foam, barf everywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That what's coming on. And she's seen it. She's like, Oh,
it's so funny. And then they're getting it married.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
She's like, Jesus is not a lot over and he's
gonna keep doing that in front of the kids. Yingling
coming out of his nose. All right, watch this, I'm
a dragon. You can do it with milk kids. I
don't know best elected them. I don't even care about them, man,
all you.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I stopped thinking about them in general.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well he could.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I mean, the chiefs are kind of over and I
don't know if she is or not. But her last record,
I don't hear people talking about it at all, but
I'm not in that world, so I don't know. I
know it sold like gangbusters because she put out eighty
five versions of it that every Taylor Swift fan had
to buy. And then you know, she basically blackmails all
of the streaming platforms and make sure that she is
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like way on top on the streamers.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, this is one of the first records of hers
that I got into an algorithm. And again, who knows
what the truth is because the algorithm tailor's to you, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
But it might be.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That, like this is the first algorithm swing that I
saw where people were dunking.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
On her for this, Yeah, dunked on a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Again, you know, when I'm cool.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
People like the last stuff and now now like that
the hipster taste makers are like, this is actually just bad,
and I kind of feel like there there's been an emperor. Uh,
you know, has no close thing to her lyrics the
whole time because I know it's not for me, but
just objectively, it didn't seem like a great product for
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the reaction that it was getting. I'm like, these lyrics
are really sophomoric, but you know, I don't. I guess
if you're twelve it sure, I'll hit you on the sweet.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Spot was the record that she did that was like
an acoustic record.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Folklore was that the one that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Was People really said that was her grown up record, right, It.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Was a really grown up record, and I think that
did give a lot of credence to her lyrics, and
then everything she started to release after that got so
much attention. But then this one came off as extremely
juvenile and backlash galore.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So I listen, I enjoyed it. I'm not saying I
didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But at the same time, I think everybody's bubble bursts
at some point, and she's about as big as you
can get, so it was gonna happen at some point.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, unless we take over another planets. She's already conquered
this one.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
It's time, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
One of the good things about going down rabbit holes
on YouTube is nobody has to know what you waste
your time watching at until eleven PM, not even you.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
But now all that.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Nonsense is going to be regarded urgitated. So YouTube is
now going to be doing the same thing that everybody
likes to do. Now you're going to get a YouTube
recap end of the year, and it's going to show
you all of the crap that you wasted your time
watching throughout the year.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Oh my, I can't wait to see that because I
know exactly what it's gonna be. I mean the entire Like,
as soon as I click on that thing, it's just
going to be like, welcome to.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Your year review.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
You watched nine hundred hours of Edmund Fitzgerald documentaries, Gordon
Lightfoot specials, and all kinds of Great Lakes shipping instructional videos.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, that's right, That's all I've seen on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
It's like, every time I open up YouTube, it's giving
me more Edmund Fitzgerald recommendations.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I can't get away from it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is it still popping up in your algorithm to supplement it?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Though?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Like, are you still getting the memes. You're still getting.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Not as many, but they're there starting.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
To drop off.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh no, look at that time of season, you know,
well it'll you know.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And then it was Last Waltz.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Yeah, for sure, Thanksgiving, there's a lot of Last Waltz memes.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And now let it's headed towards Christmas. I don't know.
I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Assume you're going to get back to farting dogs probably,
Let's hope.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Let's so we can get back to that nice, comfortable
place where it's just dogs at fort the start of
the Chris Isaac song.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
You know what is so funny that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You bring that up when you were going to play
a sound That is what I thought you were going
to play, the Chris Isaac fart.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah is that that one?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, like the guitar part in the beginning of that.
There's a viral video of a guy like in a
stall and he just lets out a bowl fart that
sounds exactly like the beginning of the It's like perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Big Cat joining us right now here.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Brought to you by yinglink make it a ynglink traditional
logger from the oldest brewery in America, Big Cat, how
are you buddy.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
I'm good.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Although we got an issue on our hands. He's got
an issue on our hand.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I want to hear it.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
I just I just so, I was driving into work.
Before I got into work, I was I was looking
at my phone and apparently Mike Tomlin's sons want to
beat up Jersey Jerry.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yes, so that's the thing. And I didn't know if
you were privy to that yet. So Mike Mike Toland's
son Dino has issued I don't know, not a fut wah,
but I mean he wants to is a fight wah.
He wants to fight Jersey Jerry, and Jersey Jerry said
he would do it for fifty grand now because he's
got a family. He said, he's a he's got a family,
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and Dino is a D one athlete and so he'll
probably mop Jersey Jerry up.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Jersey Jerry said, you know, give me the fifty grand.
Dino said, no, that's not how this works. And so
Jersey Jerry is out. He said, I'm not fighting you.
But now Dono maybe maybe wants to fight Jersey Jerry's
podcast partner Kevin Kevin.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Yeah, So, I just I wanted on the records I
didn't know any of this until like literally ten minutes ago.
I loved I love Jerry's death, you know, like he's
a brother to me. I would do anything for him.
Whenever something like this happens, my immediate knee jerk reaction
is Jerry did something wrong, and I'm going to take
the other guys out because I feel like Dino's in
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the right here.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
I know nothing about.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
It, but as soon as if I go into the
office and I asked Jerry like two questions, I'll probably
get a clear idea that Jerry said or did something
that like, yeah, he probably should get punched in the face.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
So it's like one of those things when you are
a fan of a team or a band, you feel
removed far enough that they the person that you're talking
about stops being a human. They're like the object that's
in the way of success for you and the thing
that you're rooting for.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And I would say that Jerry has been less than.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Judicious in his uh estimation of Mike Tomlin's abilities.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Yes, I think that's fair, and it is true. It's
something that we like Jerry should know it because people
do the same thing to us where they treat us
like we're not humans, to talk about us like we're
not human beings, and there's like, you know, it's a bigger,
more serious discussion about how my computers and phones have
completely made this world like such a cruel place because
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people think they can just say anything. But yeah, I
just want it on the record that, like I love again,
I love Jerry. Like the way I deal with Jerry is.
I saw this and I was like, oh, he probably
deserves to get punched in the face. And if he
gets punched the face, like I'll be the one to
drive him to the hospital, you know what I mean.
So still have his back, But sometimes guys deserve to
get punched in the face.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Please tell Jerry that the GoFundMe already has twenty four
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Scare him a little bit. Jerry will find a way sat.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Down, and he will also find a way to like,
you know, scam money out.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Of this whole thing.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
That's you know, he's good at that.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So come out on top.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, he might get hurt, but he'll come out
on top.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Well, I gotta imagine Mike Tomlin is pissed at Dino
as much as what he's doing is admirable. It's kind
of like when Anthony Soprano Junior tries to go kill
Uncle Junior, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, you
probably shouldn't be doing this, Like we'll take care of it,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
It's it's the whole thing. It feels like. And you
guys can tell me because you haven't seen no way.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Far better than I do.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
But like from an observer from the outside and like
you know, a big fan of the NFL and covering
the NFL, it does feel like the heat has finally
reached like a real spot for Mike Tomlin where we've
gone through this before, but this one feels a little
different where it's like, yeah, it's crazy that the team
is exactly the same yet again for like the tenth
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year in a row.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Last year was the year that the seat got hot
on a level that it hadn't before. But it was
never he was never in danger of getting fired. A
lot of people were like, this is a joke. It's
the same thing year after hear and then they did
this hold on, hold on, wait to see what we
have up our sleeve for next year, and then they
go out and give Slay ten million dollars. They bring
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in Jalen Ramsey on that trade with John new They
get rid of Minka and bring those two in, and
they're like, this is gonna fit perfect. We're gonna be
able to cover everybody. We're gonna have shutdown man coverage
on defense. And then you know they'd given Patrick Queen
that big contract before that, and then Aaron Rodgers ends
up coming here and DK Metcalf and they spend all
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this money and they're like, uh huh, that's right, we're
fixing this.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And it is just garbage.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
And so the noise that we've been hearing here Big
Cat finally has permeated enough of the national bubble because
the problem is, and here's what has been pissing us
off forever in Pittsburgh is that we've been saying, like, dude,
this is not working.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
And then you get everybody on ESPN going.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Oh, the Steelers would be crazy to fire Mike Toms, right,
all of those guys. Now there's only a couple of them.
Now there's only Will Bond saying that, and a couple
of other guys in ESPN. Now you got Colin Colin
Cowherd going yeah, maybe it's time for him to move on.
You know, you got Ben Roethlisberger going on his podcast
and saying that Mike Tomlins should coach Penn State, which
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I'm sure, Yeah, he didn't do to piss him off
at all. He just was just naing off fering opinion.
He wasn't trying to get under my skin, you know.
And so that's how it's changed. It's the national perspective
on this big cat is that, you know what, maybe
those Pittsburgh's weren't just a bunch of spoiled fans.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Maybe they have a point.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, and you guys do have a point.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
We've been saying for over a year now that it's
like because I remember.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
That this point changed in my mind.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
It was probably about last year around this time where
we had this discussion. I was like, for the longest time,
I was like, how can Steelers fans be upset? I
would do anything to get in the playoffs every year.
I do anything to be over five hundred. And then
last year, after watching that team again, I was like, yeah,
I don't know how you could watch this team and
be excited about it knowing that it's gonna be the
exact same result every single year and nothing is changing,
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and nothing is you know, like that Bills game. You guys,
the Bills just ran the same play over and over
and over right down your throat. It's fit. That's bad coaching,
and so I yeah, I agree with you, Like I see,
I still think.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
I think Rex.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Ryan is another one who's still hold out. He said
something like Mike Tomlin would get a job in a
second if that's Steelers finals. I don't know if that's
totally true. Like, I think you get another shot somewhere
else eventually, but I don't think everyone's like, you know, running,
you know, banging down the door for Mike Tomlin. At
this point, you might have to do a little self
reflection and go, you know, pick a year off before
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he becomes a hot commodity.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Even if he did go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I mean, Andy Reid is the comparison that I've always
used here where it's like it stopped working for him
in Philly.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Then he had that four and twelve season or whatever
it was.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And they finally bounce him after getting so close and
sniffing it a few times. He goes on to win
championships and they win two Super Bowls with two different
coaches since then it was a mutually beneficial parting. I
kind of think that's where they are right now. But
I have to say I know that you guys on
pardon my take, highlighted our buddy Seth Roorbas tweet which
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was the most I mean, this is Nostradamus stuff. Mike
Tomlin will say something like we can't eat soup with forks,
we need spoons. Then the Steelers will sign a twenty
eighteen pro bowler to the practice squad, and don't they
go two days later and sign Adam Thielen, who was
a member of the two thousand in Innate Pro Bowl.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
This, this alone should get Mike Tomlin fired. When you're
so easily parodied, Like the parody is so easy to
do and it's so on the nose, that alone, like
should get him fired. That's just you can't have you
can't like, if you're Mike Tomlins, you've got to have
someone in that building be like like when you're when
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you're talking to to Adam Thielen's agent, be like, hey, sir,
just before we do this, Like I just I want
to let you know what Seth tweeted, We should get
ahead us. Yeah, they know they're onto us, and they
this might look bad in the public, and it did
look bad. It looks ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Well, let me ask you this. Let's let's turn it
over to your team, because to me, this is the
game of the week. The Bears yea and the Packers
at Lambeau. It's gonna be subfreezing temperatures, maybe some flurries
like flying around like the picturesque Bears Packers matchup. This
isn't I tonic uniform clash on the most heralded football
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field in the league. And now, finally, for the first
time in a long time, both teams are good. Both
teams are good, and your Bears have a chance to
keep a clasp on the number one seed in the
conference that I did not see coming. And you did
all of this without Caleb Williams actually playing great.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He's he's doing okay.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
So my question to you is this, what is your
confidence level going in against what has traditionally been, at
least in recent history, the Bears Kryptonite.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Oh, I mean it's not even I don't even think
it's kryptonite, because kryptonite, like I feel like Superman puts
up like a tiny bit of.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Fight against kryptonite. We haven't done any.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Of that, So I am I'm weirdly confident. Now here's
the other thing I am. It ties in purplectly the
Mike Common discussion. When you get a code that you
feel confidence in, it does give you a little bit
of a calmness, where like Ben Johnson, I just have
the utmost confidence in him and his plan and what
he's done for this organization and the culture. And we
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play the Packers again in two weeks, and it's not
like so I'm going into this game weirdly like, yes,
I obviously want to win, and I actually do, in
my heart of hearts thinks the Bears can win. But
I also know we play them again in two weeks
and I'm not gonna freak out if we lose because.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Ben Johnson will find a way.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
And it's like, find a way to split this And
the reason why you go nine and three to start
the seasons. You give yourself a cushion where not every
game makes you freak out. But I'm so excited that
Bears actually have a team that I feel like can
compete with anyone and we can run the football we
have an identity. That's really what it comes down to,
is like having an identity. You guys know this, like
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when the Steelers have an identity. There's you just go
in and you're like, hey, we know we can do
this better than anyone else, and it's up to you
to figure out how to stop it. And our ability
to the football has been that This year is so
much fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Yeah, and you know, getting some takeaways too would be big.
Jordan Love seems to be getting better this year though.
That's gonna be a fun one. I'm hoping the Bears win.
That'll make that that whole conference more fun if they
keep winning.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And it's hard.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
It's impossible to not be a fan of Ben Johnson
ripping off his shirt, doing the whole you know, getting
the Wieners circle to to give out free hot dogs
on Tuesday. I think they gave out a thousand hot
dogs after he did the shirtless celebration.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
The dude's kind of jack too. For what it's worth,
Oh big time.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I said I would leave my wife for him. So
she found out about that. She wasn't happy, but I said,
I was like, listen, I like, I don't think he
wants to leave his wife for me.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Right, but if he if I get the call, like.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
He's he's my home, he's your guy.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, I'm not gay, so I don't care. Like I
just we just live together. We'll just have like a
you know, like a relationship where we.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Just live together and just hang out.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Yeah, it was Aaron Rodgers' birthday the other day? Did
did he ever return your birthday messae him?
Speaker 8 (27:01):
He did not? I don't. I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I don't expect to return.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
What did you say?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
I just a happy birthday friend?
Speaker 8 (27:11):
And uh no.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
No response. I actually am like it's it's crazy. I
think it's maybe just like the fact that he hasn't
been a packer for you know whatever it is three
four years now, Like I actually am starting to feel
bad for him because that was it's just like that
shot of him with his.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Nose golf agled.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
And just like yeah, yeah, it's just like.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
What are you doing?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Man? You got so much money, Go go live your
life somewhere else, Like this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
But that's the look on his face. The look on
his face is like I shouldn't have done this. That's
kind of how I was reading it, Like I shouldn't
have done this.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Yeah, like he shouldn't have left the Packers, Like, and
I know that was obviously there's more of the packers coming,
you know, drafting Jordan Love and all that, but like
this is he's he's he's gone through the gauntlet last
three years and I'd imagine this has gotta be it.
And so he probably didn't have the best birthday ever.
But Adam feeling that's a nice birthday present.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yes, well, maybe he'll show up to the film study.
It's home. It's Oh, it's crazy.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
You have retirement home.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
It's crazy, dude.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Mike Tomlin is the guy I say, like, he's the
guy who goes around in your house and you're like, hey,
this soap dispenser's out of soap. He's like, no, it's not.
And then he puts a ton of water in it.
He's like, he's like, plenty of soap left in this.
You're like there's none.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
There's literally you just you're washing your hands with water.
He's like, there's so much soap in here. This is
elite soap.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
And you're like, there's no soap left none.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It tries Oh man.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
It's so true though, it's so true. It's like just anyone,
anyone who was good ten years ago, they're gonna be
a steeler.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
He adopts thirteen year old dogs exclusively, like just old
dogs in his house. You walk in, they're all like
walking around, limping and stuff like that. He's got to
get his medicine twice a day. But he's a good dog.
A lot of fetch left in him. Think about it.
Think of all the busts. One Thornhill, Darius Slayh One
(29:11):
Thornhill is the one that got the whole historic defense discussion.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This was all happened on our show Big Cat. One.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
One Thornhill says, yeah, this could this defense has a
chance to be one of the best of all time.
And then Tom and came on with us, and we
followed up with hey, one Thornhill just said, you guys
can be one of the best of all time. And
he said we could do great things and by that
I mean historic And they are absolutely abysmal. It's so
far away from what they thought they were going to
(29:38):
be able to do. And that's the problem. They can't
assess talent here. They think they have something so much
better than they do.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
And and and another one is like George Pickens should
get by Tom and fired as well.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Oh my god, crazy, Like that's coaching.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
That's He's the best wide receiver in the league right now.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
He was so fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
He was so fun to watch even if we was
you know, he wasn't as gonna be as good here
as he is in Dallas. I mean, it was fun
to watch him karate kick somebody on a route that
he's not involved in, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, and now that.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Yeah, that that.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
I was actually jogging with someone the other day. Like, like,
getting older in life, you realize, like when you're in
your you know, teenage years and your twenties and like
you're you're kind of dumb about sports, and you see
like a player leave your your franchise and they do
great things, and you're like, oh, that's just bad luck.
I can't believe that happened. Then you then you have
the aha moment where you're like, no, that's just coaching.
(30:36):
Like if if a player leaves and is awesome without
your like outside of your organization, that means they're starting
to get coached correctly. That's all it is.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, and there's a couple of those guys, Kevin Dotson
being one of them recent memory that have left the
Steelers and gone on to great things after we gave
up on them.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
My last thing I have for you, I tried to.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I went on the Fish's ticket outlet yesterday to sign
up for Sphere shows just to see if I could
get anything, and the price for Fish at the Sphere,
I'm like, I'll see if I can reserve four tickets.
They make you pay for your tickets, whether you're gonna
get them or not. It comes out of your your
bank account. Yes, you have to pay for them no
matter what. And it's three hundred a ticket. So a
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three day pass to get four to three day passes
thirty six hundred bucks. And I'm like, there's no way
I'm doing this. I can't look. I would love to
see them there because after seeing Dead and Company there,
it was so much fun. And Fish does an even
more unique show. Every single night is a different Sphere
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show for them. They spend a lot of money on it,
but I think I'm gonna draw the line on a
three hundred dollars face value ticket for a concert.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
I think that's fair. I think that's absolutely fair. I
thought the same thing when I was like, all right,
I want to go, and I probably will go, But
like that is I didn't realize that part of it
that you have to pay before.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah, I mean it's there's got to be a limit
to all.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
This stuff eventually, right, like the regular But that's that's
also like I guess I'm not to the same level
of you know, like money that we're asking for our fans.
But like we did sell like hank Dog toys over
Black Friday, and those sold out right away. So if
there's a demand, I guess you got to just do it.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Were they three hundred dollars apiece because you missed out?
If they weren't, they weren't.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
There were twenty dollars apiece. We sold five hundred of
them in eighty seven seconds. We disclculated how many to order.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Had we had like three thousand people on the wait
list within the first ten minutes, we really messed that
one up. We could have sold probably like one hundred
thousand hank Dog toys.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
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All right, Thank you guys, appreciate it.
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Speaker 11 (33:59):
We'll get to that in just a second, but just
to kind of set the table for Sunday resumption to
one of the great rivalries in sports, and nobody's talking
about that, probably in either city.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Weird, well, because both fan bases are so down on
the team's performance this year.
Speaker 11 (34:17):
And yet they're playing for first place both teams. Yes,
and there's no clear cut favorite in the AFC where
if you were ever gonna sneak into the playoffs at
nine to eight, this would be the year you might
actually be able to do some damage.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
And this is the first of two games they'll play
this month with well, I guess the second game is
the first week of January. First, Yeah, but yeah, like
the Packers and the Bears are playing each other twice
in two weeks with the similar dynamic of whoever wins
is on top. So that one, because both those teams
have been playing, well, that's the national spotlight game this weekend,
that's the one. Everyone's like, this is the game of
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the weekend. But this has all the same ramifications.
Speaker 11 (34:53):
And better recent history because the Bears have stunked for
so long, right, Pittsburgh, Lee's the all time series thirt
six twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Steelers have actually won eight.
Speaker 11 (35:03):
Of the last eleven, all of them by a touchdown
or fewer points. But the Ravens have won the last two,
and both in convincing fashion, particularly in the playoffs. A
couple of the you know game within the game matchups.
They're almost identical statistically across the board, but there are
some differences. Red zone defense the Steelers are tenth in
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the NFL, and red zone offense the Ravens are thirtieth.
Believe it or not, it's because Lamar Jackson has not
been running because he's been hurt or trying not to
get hurt again. He only has one rushing touchdown. He
averages five a year. Steelers got to win defensive red
zone and then offensive red zone for Baltimore the Ravens.
(35:53):
The Ravens ranked sixth in red zone defense, the Steelers
rank fifth in red zone offense. So that's kind of
a toss up part when the Ravens getting a red
zone and Steels got to win that. When the Steelers
getting red zone, they gotta at least push that assuming
there will be opportunities and then takeaways. Baltimore is minus
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four on the season Pittsburgh's plus eight. That's a big disparity.
Ravens have been turning it over a lot. They don't
take the ball away. So the Steelers got to win takeaway.
Probably say that every week and.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Well, because it's the only way they can win right now,
and a lot of people are criticizing them for that
is the makeup of their defense. The strategy is get takeaways,
huge splash plays and let them run rampant in between.
Speaker 11 (36:40):
Yeah, well, I don't know about to let them run part,
but they seem to be running.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Sack differential.
Speaker 11 (36:48):
The Ravens have a minus fifteen sack differential and they
have one of the hardest quarterbacks in the NFL to sack.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
That speaks to.
Speaker 11 (36:55):
Their lack of rush and to Lamar's somewhat limited physical state.
This year, Pittsburgh's plus twelve Steelers have registered thirty four
sacks and allowed twenty two. Baltimore's registered nineteen and allowed
thirty four. So turnovers, splash defense, takeaways and sacks the trend.
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There seems to be an opportunity there for the Steelers. Then,
with just the basic playing of football, obviously you got
to stop their running game. We could talk about that
from now until kickoff, who knows if they'll do it
or not. The way the Bengals attacked the Ravens was
interesting to me. They did a lot of really steealer
like things. For the first two and a half quarters.
They attacked the perimeter, They threw short into the outside,
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they got the ball out, quick play action bootleg with Burrow.
They ran to the outside perimeter, perimeter, perimeter, and then
mid to late third quarter like Rocky switching back to
the left handed or however that work. Then they went
down the middle a couple times and scorched them almost
like love them into a foot sense of security that
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they weren't going to go over the middle, and then
they attack the middle. Uh, the guy you want to attack.
I've been saying this for a couple of years. Marlon
Humphy's had a great career at their cornerback number forty four.
You can get behind him, remember a couple of years ago,
pick at the pickens with the game on the line,
you can.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Get behind him.
Speaker 11 (38:20):
Bengals took one on one shots deep, a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
They didn't hit.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Who's running those Austin and DK.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
I mean probably not Austin probably see him this week.
No or not Austin not DK. I wouldn't think he's
not the deep ball guy.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Well maybe he is.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I don't know who has just been doubled up so
much he can't get get loose.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
But occasionally get a one on one. I mean they
got chased behind him one time. It's not they don't
get doubled every down, despite what people like to say.
When I say people, I mean the participants. Right, Oh,
you can't get a DK. He's doubled everything. Now you
just got to recognize when he's not and you got
to take your show. Bengals missed a fair amount of times,
but they hit a couple. They got a pass interference penalty.
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And part of this, and I think this plays right
into Aaron Rodgers' wheelhouse. They got a rookie or not
a rookie safety safety they traded for from the Chargers,
a low high Gilman. He starts and Malachi starks as
a rookie of the other safety.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Gilman in particular.
Speaker 11 (39:26):
Will kind of line up like he's gonna double but
it's almost like a Feine double coverage. Then he either
looks inside or moves inside at the snap. If Rogers
can detect when it's actually double coverage and when it isn't,
which we saw him do that in New England. I mean,
Baltimore's whole defensive philosophy seems to be lining up a
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bunch of guys at the line of scrimmage. Everybody's faking
a blitz. They don't blitz that often, but you don't
know who's coming, and you don't know where the guys
were dropping are gonna go. That's what they're trying to
They're trying to confuse a quarterbacks because they can't get there,
right Can they confuse Aaron Rodgers or can they get
there against Aaron Rodgers? Which they don't they'll normally do,
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but if they do, it's a problem.
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Speaker 3 (40:52):
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Speaker 12 (41:13):
Good morning, morning team. I hope you all had a
good turkey day.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Oh dude, I had a great one. How about you?
Do you have a good one.
Speaker 12 (41:19):
I won't get near a scale for a few weeks,
but yeah, it was good.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
How long did you take to Turkey?
Speaker 7 (41:26):
How?
Speaker 12 (41:27):
How long?
Speaker 7 (41:27):
What?
Speaker 5 (41:27):
How long did you keep eating turkey? What day did
you stop eating turkey? Because I I think.
Speaker 12 (41:32):
I got turkey sandwich last night?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, me too, me too.
Speaker 7 (41:35):
I took it.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
I took it to yesterday and I had and I
had one piece of pumpkin pie left and I'm looking
at it going nope, not eating that.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Yeah, I can't do.
Speaker 12 (41:43):
I'm thinking of doing some turkey salad. But I say,
I've had my fill.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
But how surprised are you about Penn State's coaching predicament.
Speaker 12 (41:55):
Well, I you know, I told you guys at the
time I didn't like the firing. I like James Bryantanklin.
I know they you know, and know his record and
against top ten teams and all that stuff. But even
if they were going to do that, I thought they
should have waited to the end of the year. And
while this looks like a complete botch job by Pat
Kraft and the way everything's going, you know, Todd mcshay's
(42:18):
revelation about this Jimmy Sexton thing, I think is explaining
a lot. And you know, he was Franklin's agent who
has taken at them for firing him, and he has
steered all of his clients away from Penn State, orchestrated
extensions for a lot of guys. Chesney's the James Madison
coach who was supposedly they were interested in, you know,
(42:38):
he takes another job somewhere else. So I think there's
been some things, some vendetta against Penn State there which
might explain it a little bit. It's not going to
make the you know, the alumni or the fan base
any happier though, So I didn't like the firing at
the time, but I am very surprised if they've had
this much trouble. You know, ESPN listed it as d
(42:58):
that in the LSU job was the two top available
jobs when all these coaching jobs were available, and now
they've all been filled. I think that's the frustrating part.
You fired the guy in mid season, you think to
get a head start on getting your next guy. I
believe UCLA was the only school that fired a guy
earlier than them Yet LSU, Florida Ole, miss Auburn, now
South Florida. Of course, Virginia Tech have all got their
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coaches in line, and Penn State's recruiting classes now barely
ahead of perryview A and m guy.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
Ben Roethlisberger suggested on his podcast this week that it
might be time for a fresh start for Mike Tomlin
and Steeler fans. They also suggested, you know, maybe Tomlin
should go to Penn State where he might win some
national titles.
Speaker 12 (43:41):
Nah, that ain't happened. I would be you know, I
don't necessarily think he would be a terrible fit there,
he's not gonna want to do that. He would do
that as a giant step down. And even when they're
talking about Brian Dabo and guys like that, I mean,
anybody coming from the NFL, there's still a bit of
a learning curve when it comes to re recruiting nil
(44:01):
money transfer portal. It's a totally different game than what
you're coaching in the NFL. Whoever they hire, I hope
is a guy would college experience, not NFL experience, or
a little both.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Well, I mean, let's agree that Ben was just trying
to bust his balls in yeah, and didn't anticipate that
that would get thrown into the national you know, sports
talk menu for the day, because every single show talked
about the potential of Mike Tomlin going to Penn State.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Which had to have unnerved coach t to know.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
And the guy who said never say never, but never
there aren't boosters who can write a check big enough
for me to go to college because.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
He sees it as a huge step down.
Speaker 12 (44:44):
Well, well, Ben probably knew exactly that he would get
all this exactly. Well, if you remember you met guys,
remember John Burton Channel four a.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Week jab he's the best.
Speaker 12 (44:53):
Oh yeah, well he actually Okay. So Bill Cower was
rumored to maybe be interested in the NC State job
where he played and our station down and Rawleigh wanted
us to ask him at the pret weekly press conference
about the rumors that he could be headed to NC State. Well,
John Burton at that time was covering the Cower press
(45:15):
conference on Tuesdays. He said, there is no way I'm
going to ask him that question. It's not happening. Well,
the news director at Channel four at the time then
pulled his press He said, you're not covering the press
conference anymore. We're sending Sheldon Ingram So they said, Sheldon
Ingram down.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
Sheldon's terrifying, So that was probably a good move.
Speaker 8 (45:36):
He is.
Speaker 12 (45:38):
But you also, if you're gonna get down there every
single week and try to get information and talk to
Bill Cowherd, you can't ask him a question when you
know it's that.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
Asked exactly exactly. Send Sheldon in to do the dirty
he's the wolf.
Speaker 9 (45:52):
Man.
Speaker 12 (45:53):
So did he do it?
Speaker 8 (45:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (45:55):
Sheldon did. Yeah, and I don't think JB covered. After
a cup full of weeks, that all blew over and
JB was back to covering the weekly press conference, but
it was a big, you know, a big hubbub in
the newsroom over all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
Oh yeah, you'd have to wear a spit cut like
mask to ask Hower that question because it would be
flying after you asserted that he might leave the Steelers
for North Carolina State Louise. All right, Well, you know
what stinks about the game this weekend is, you know,
we've been comparing it to the two You know, this
time of year you get a lot of rivalry games,
and there's you know, the longest running rivalry in the NFL,
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in the Packers and the Bears.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
Those guys facing each other with.
Speaker 5 (46:33):
Unique circumstances on the line here being that they're both
good for a change. It's been a long time since
twenty ten, the NFC championship game that determined who would
go on to face the Steelers, and.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
They I think eleven and zero.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
The Packers were with Matt Lafleur in the last twelve
games before having lost last year's finale. They've just been
owning it. It's not much of a rivalry when one
team beats up on the others and Bears are good
again and everyone's looking at that game, going, oh, Man,
this is gonna be a classic matchup. But the Steelers
and the Ravens are the same thing. They're just in
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a different place. They're still fighting for number one guy.
It just doesn't have a luster that that one does.
Speaker 8 (47:16):
Well.
Speaker 12 (47:17):
I was glad that here pursuit of breaking the game
down a little bit in his last sportscast before he
left there, because my thoughts were the same as you guys.
I haven't heard a word all week about this game.
All I've heard about is, you know, tomlins unseat. Is
he going to be fired?
Speaker 5 (47:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (47:30):
He going depends, you know. And it's I mean, it's
understandable if you look, I mean, forget the small picture
and all this stuff, look at the big picture. A
year ago this weekend, they beat the Browns to go
to ten and three. Since then, there's six and eleven.
That's the equivalent of a full season. And and you know,
both teams are coming off embarrassed. You know, in Baltimore,
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they thought they had a team that was gonna be
a Super Bowl compender. They're sitting there six and six.
They're disappointed. They got embarrassed by the Bengals on Thanksgiving.
The Steelers were you know, slapped around by Buffalo, and
I think both fan bases are sitting there thinking, oh God,
we're gonna see Moore of the same against our most
hated rival. Instead of going into it like foaming purple
at the mouth in Baltimore and paint your face black
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and golden Pittsburgh, I think it's more afraight, like, oh man,
it's gonna happen again.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
Yeah, it's a one o'clock game, Steelers and the Ravens.
And I just do not understand for the life of me, guy,
how that defense is so Jeckyll and Hide. And I
don't even know if i'll I mean, I guess you
have to give him the full credit of being good
when you stop Jonathan Taylor, when you shut down the
Bears running attack, you know, to the more formidable rushing
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teams in the league. But how could it be that
just I mean, unorganized is the only word I can
think of. They look like they had no idea what
they were doing against the Bills.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
How do you let that happens.
Speaker 12 (48:56):
When when Tony Romo is sitting in the press watching says,
they're just running two plays, They're running the same two place,
but they can't figure that. You know where coaching comes
into most in football to me is at halftime. There's
the perfect time where you sit there you adjust to
let us go forget whatever whatever happened the whole season,
what happened in the first two quarters of that game.
That's what you have to adjust to in the second half.
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The Steelers have been outscored in the third quarter almost
every game this year. They've been outscored in the second
half one hundred and seventy eight to one hundred and
twenty nine. Four of their six losses they led at halftime.
I think there's severely being out coached in the second half.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
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Guy.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Thanks as always, buddy. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 12 (49:45):
All right, guys, have a good week.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
Okay, we'll see you. Running a little late here so
we got to get out quick.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
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Whistle for hanging out with us here this morning and
come back and hang next week if you can.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
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Speaker 1 (51:06):
I'm finished.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
You stay classy. Pittsburgh, don't touch your face.
Speaker 7 (51:10):
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Speaker 1 (51:12):
So now you guys call me Ronald.
Speaker 4 (51:14):
Would you not eat my pants?
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
A festive ice rink installed in Italy has started some
controversy for insulting the memory of Lucciano Pavarotti. The rank
featured a raised platform and clear plexiglass barriers around a
bronze monument of the opera grate. Skaters were encouraged via
social media to skate around and high five the statue,
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which for some reason started to sink.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And so it is way too small.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
He kind of looks like a munchin.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Because every joke about Pavaratti was about his weight. And
then they created a statue that collapsed the ice underneath him,
and he's knee deep in an ice rink, and it's
like a real insult to a guy who battled fat
jokes his whole life.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You're really seeing the fattest part of him, right.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Get those ankles out of there, so Spindley, he looks
like Tim Conway doing Dorf.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Brandy Bellman and the DVE Morning Show.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Jed Whistles hanging out with us this morning, and yeah,
that that Pavarotti.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Statue is hilarious. It's so damn funny.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
On the way for you, Big catt'll bey joining us
shortly ten minutes or so. Guy Jonker at nine forty five, Abby,
He's got a news update for you.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
First.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What's going on? Abby?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Is this hour brought to you by a better call
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and eighty three million. Tickets are two bucks each, with
the odds of hitting the jackpot roughly one in two
hundred and ninety two million.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
So what I like to do is go buy a
bunch of those and then you give them out as like, hey,
this is your birthday gift. I know in a couple
of months, but here you go. It's like, seems like
a cheap gift at face, but what it might be
is a life changing ticket.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I've given you potentially enough money to ruin your life.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I sent Molly a scratch off Molly offa butt for
her birthday and it hit for.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
G Oh, I know, I love the like the you know,
the small to medium sized prizes. When people hit, it's like, yeah,
so and so hit for five grand on a scratch off,
and then the hater of the group outs themselves and
it's like five grand more like thirty eight hundred. Okay, man, yeah,
(02:42):
it's still cool, right, still cool.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Uncle Sam takes a bite, you know, Okay, whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So we do this thing every year for Christmas in
our family because there's about fourteen of us and everybody's
a bit older, and instead of having to buy gifts
for every single person, we do one banging gift and
then do like a Rando Sanda game where you know,
you pull a number and then you pick a gift
or whatever. But the limit is fifty bucks because it
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used to be like, oh, ten dollars and then you'd
get a crappy thing. But nobody wanted all the crappy
stuff and it was dumb, and so I was like,
why don't we just buy each other like something that's awesome.
And so every year I've got like really cool things
I have, like a good like brevel tee thing that
I like, and a good blanket and things that I'm
legitimately using.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Now, if I got fifty dollars in lottery tickets.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That works, right, I think, so I'll take it all
the time.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Think of the joy, just the anticipation as you pull
out the quarter and start scratching a lucky quarter.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yes, this quarter, Oh, yes, this one, this is the one. Yes.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
When you're in those situations where everyone's pulling and doing
their fifty dollars thing, there's always one person who's like, yeah, fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like a guideline, you know, like the.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
One uncle that drops two fifty and you know that
gifts out there somewhere.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, but there is one.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
There's always some and I'm above the rules of the
mom that's you, no, not me.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh yeah, well you know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Also there's been bidets and things like that where it's
a little, it gets a little.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Those are like not an actual bedet throne. It's like
you add it to the toilet.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yes, yes, I've won the day before and I'm like
America remains of the day. Ah, all right. Tera reads
claim that someone slipped a drug in her drink doesn't
hold water with cops.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Who have found no video you did Tara.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
To back up her allegation, Rosemont police told TMZ they
reviewed surveillance footage from the Chicago area hotel and there
is no indication, at least based on the videos that
they saw that anyone drugged her. Last month, Tara was
taken out of the DoubleTree Hotel on a stretcher, loaded
into an ambulance, and driven to a hotel. She says
that she left her drink unattended at the bar and.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
She believes that she was drug.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Cops are waiting to get any medical records from her
hospital stay to confirm if tests were done. She says
she believes the tests were done, but as of now,
Rosemont PD says that you have no evidence of a crime,
and she says Tara, that is bottom line is no
one ends up in the hospital incapacitated over a drink.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Uh, you know, I disagree.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You know, it's been a real problem in some places
right where, like there's rampant people, big time dosing people's
drinks and college campuses. I know, it's a big thing.
So it's a very serious problem. It just was like,
in that circumstance, it didn't make a whole lot of sense.
She really just kind of has crashed out so hard.
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I feel bad for her.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I just don't know. She has never recovered.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
She doesn't have anything to like, you know, Britney has
a lot of wealth, you know, and Terror is just
kind of like you were famous and now you're a
mess and people got at what a mess you are
and that's all she has.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's kind of it kind of makes me sad. That's
a big bummer.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, yeah, I think the last thing she did of
note was Sharknato.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Right, so she went from the Big Lebowski to Shark Nato.
It's a rough ride.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, There's been plenty of times that I know that
I've been out and all of a sudden the drunk
has caught up with me. And I was convinced in
the moment, I'm like, did someone drug me? And I'll
hang on to that for maybe a minute or two
before I start doing like the calculus meme in my head.
And then I realized it was megged me.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
It's me.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I haven't eaten in two days.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I ran five miles, I didn't drink any water, and
I came here in order to Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, yeah, I've been Who did this?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You hear Tim Robinson in the hot Dog costume. We're
all looking for this.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
There are relationship experts who say it's not a good
sign if a couple never fights, But that's the rarefied
air that Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift occupy.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Travis and his.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Brother Jason had George Clooney on their New Heights podcast
and they were talking about how George and his wife
Amal say they never fight, and Travis said that.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
He and Taylor have never had an argument.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Of course, they've only been together for two and a
half years. As faithful as Travis is to Taylor, he's
also a team player, and he says that when they
started dating, he asked the team to not play Taylor's
music in the stadium.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I guess that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
They didn't want to mix the I don't want to
cross the stretch.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's just good common sense there. But you don't want
to hear your fiance get booed at the game. Plus
she's at the game half the time and she doesn't
want to hear that.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I think not fighting is not a good thing, but
also I think constant fighting is also bad. And the
way you fight is very very important. Fights need to
be productive, not counter productive, correct, They don't. They're not
supposed to leave wounds and then you move on. It's
supposed to be something where you fight and you.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Come to a conclusion and you either kind of both
compromise a little bit or one person sees the errors
of their way, and then you move forward understanding.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But the whole like you know, just beating the hell
out of each other and then you know, like like
brothers punching each other in the face for a while
when they're drunk and then never talking about it again.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That's not good.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
The metaphor of that in a relationship not good. To
just land a bunch of punches and hope it goes away.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It never does. Got to work through it.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
And then just you know, remember when the fight's wrapped
up and everything's cool again, just take out your notebook
and really keep score.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's that's important too.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
How much time to Travis and Taylor really spend together.
I mean, you know, they're still in the honeymoon phase.
They've been together two and a half years. They're both
extremely busy people. That's like eight months of real time
maybe I.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Know, but I feel like anytime that they do have
a significant amount of time together, he like just comes
into the room and she's like typing on a desk
and you know, and dealing with her empire.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And he's like, uh, what are you doing? And she
just picks up a ball and throws it to the other room.
And her.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Celebrity couples in general, but those two in particular, that's
what it's like.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
We never fight, and it's like you don't see each
you don't hang out durable. It's like you don't know
a thing about each other yet.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's like if you seen each other has the flu,
it's like, yeah, cool, Yeah, they see each other.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Barf.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
No, you see nothing.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I guarantee you she's seen him barf No, like from eating.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Too many wings, like not like from like being sick
or anything. Yeah, he's just gonna Taylor, watch this, watch this.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You know, I could do it on command.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
No, dude, Him and his brother a drink like nine
hundred beers and just foam, barf everywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That what's coming on. And she's seen it. She's like, Oh,
it's so funny. And then they're getting it married.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
She's like, Jesus is not a lot over and he's
gonna keep doing that in front of the kids. Yingling
coming out of his nose. All right, watch this, I'm
a dragon. You can do it with milk kids. I
don't know best elected them. I don't even care about them, man,
all you.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I stopped thinking about them in general.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well he could.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I mean, the chiefs are kind of over and I
don't know if she is or not. But her last record,
I don't hear people talking about it at all, but
I'm not in that world, so I don't know. I
know it sold like gangbusters because she put out eighty
five versions of it that every Taylor Swift fan had
to buy. And then you know, she basically blackmails all
of the streaming platforms and make sure that she is
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like way on top on the streamers.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, this is one of the first records of hers
that I got into an algorithm. And again, who knows
what the truth is because the algorithm tailor's to you, Taylor.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
But it might be.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
That, like this is the first algorithm swing that I
saw where people were dunking.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
On her for this, Yeah, dunked on a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Again, you know, when I'm cool.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
People like the last stuff and now now like that
the hipster taste makers are like, this is actually just bad,
and I kind of feel like there there's been an emperor. Uh,
you know, has no close thing to her lyrics the
whole time because I know it's not for me, but
just objectively, it didn't seem like a great product for
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the reaction that it was getting. I'm like, these lyrics
are really sophomoric, but you know, I don't. I guess
if you're twelve it sure, I'll hit you on the sweet.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Spot was the record that she did that was like
an acoustic record.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Folklore was that the one that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Was People really said that was her grown up record, right, It.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Was a really grown up record, and I think that
did give a lot of credence to her lyrics, and
then everything she started to release after that got so
much attention. But then this one came off as extremely
juvenile and backlash galore.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
So I listen, I enjoyed it. I'm not saying I
didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But at the same time, I think everybody's bubble bursts
at some point, and she's about as big as you
can get, so it was gonna happen at some point.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, unless we take over another planets. She's already conquered
this one.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
It's time, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
One of the good things about going down rabbit holes
on YouTube is nobody has to know what you waste
your time watching at until eleven PM, not even you.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
But now all that.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Nonsense is going to be regarded urgitated. So YouTube is
now going to be doing the same thing that everybody
likes to do. Now you're going to get a YouTube
recap end of the year, and it's going to show
you all of the crap that you wasted your time
watching throughout the year.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Oh my, I can't wait to see that because I
know exactly what it's gonna be. I mean the entire Like,
as soon as I click on that thing, it's just
going to be like, welcome to.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Your year review.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
You watched nine hundred hours of Edmund Fitzgerald documentaries, Gordon
Lightfoot specials, and all kinds of Great Lakes shipping instructional videos.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, that's right, That's all I've seen on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
It's like, every time I open up YouTube, it's giving
me more Edmund Fitzgerald recommendations.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I can't get away from it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is it still popping up in your algorithm to supplement it?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Though?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Like, are you still getting the memes. You're still getting.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Not as many, but they're there starting.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
To drop off.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh no, look at that time of season, you know,
well it'll you know.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And then it was Last Waltz.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Yeah, for sure, Thanksgiving, there's a lot of Last Waltz memes.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And now let it's headed towards Christmas. I don't know.
I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Assume you're going to get back to farting dogs probably,
Let's hope.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Let's so we can get back to that nice, comfortable
place where it's just dogs at fort the start of
the Chris Isaac song.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
You know what is so funny that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You bring that up when you were going to play
a sound That is what I thought you were going
to play, the Chris Isaac fart.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yeah is that that one?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, like the guitar part in the beginning of that.
There's a viral video of a guy like in a
stall and he just lets out a bowl fart that
sounds exactly like the beginning of the It's like perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
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Speaker 5 (15:02):
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Speaker 8 (15:08):
I'm good.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Although we got an issue on our hands. He's got
an issue on our hand.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I want to hear it.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
I just I just so, I was driving into work.
Before I got into work, I was I was looking
at my phone and apparently Mike Tomlin's sons want to
beat up Jersey Jerry.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yes, so that's the thing. And I didn't know if
you were privy to that yet. So Mike Mike Toland's
son Dino has issued I don't know, not a fut wah,
but I mean he wants to is a fight wah.
He wants to fight Jersey Jerry, and Jersey Jerry said
he would do it for fifty grand now because he's
got a family. He said, he's a he's got a family,
(15:46):
and Dino is a D one athlete and so he'll
probably mop Jersey Jerry up.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Jersey Jerry said, you know, give me the fifty grand.
Dino said, no, that's not how this works. And so
Jersey Jerry is out. He said, I'm not fighting you.
But now Dono maybe maybe wants to fight Jersey Jerry's
podcast partner Kevin Kevin.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Yeah, So, I just I wanted on the records I
didn't know any of this until like literally ten minutes ago.
I loved I love Jerry's death, you know, like he's
a brother to me. I would do anything for him.
Whenever something like this happens, my immediate knee jerk reaction
is Jerry did something wrong, and I'm going to take
the other guys out because I feel like Dino's in
(16:27):
the right here.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
I know nothing about.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
It, but as soon as if I go into the
office and I asked Jerry like two questions, I'll probably
get a clear idea that Jerry said or did something
that like, yeah, he probably should get punched in the face.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
So it's like one of those things when you are
a fan of a team or a band, you feel
removed far enough that they the person that you're talking
about stops being a human. They're like the object that's
in the way of success for you and the thing
that you're rooting for.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And I would say that Jerry has been less than.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Judicious in his uh estimation of Mike Tomlin's abilities.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Yes, I think that's fair, and it is true. It's
something that we like Jerry should know it because people
do the same thing to us where they treat us
like we're not humans, to talk about us like we're
not human beings, and there's like, you know, it's a bigger,
more serious discussion about how my computers and phones have
completely made this world like such a cruel place because
(17:31):
people think they can just say anything. But yeah, I
just want it on the record that, like I love again,
I love Jerry. Like the way I deal with Jerry is.
I saw this and I was like, oh, he probably
deserves to get punched in the face. And if he
gets punched the face, like I'll be the one to
drive him to the hospital, you know what I mean.
So still have his back, But sometimes guys deserve to
get punched in the face.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Please tell Jerry that the GoFundMe already has twenty four
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Scare him a little bit. Jerry will find a way sat.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
Down, and he will also find a way to like,
you know, scam money out.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Of this whole thing.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
That's you know, he's good at that.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So come out on top.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Yeah, yeah, he might get hurt, but he'll come out
on top.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Well, I gotta imagine Mike Tomlin is pissed at Dino
as much as what he's doing is admirable. It's kind
of like when Anthony Soprano Junior tries to go kill
Uncle Junior, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, you
probably shouldn't be doing this, Like we'll take care of it,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
It's it's the whole thing. It feels like. And you
guys can tell me because you haven't seen no way.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Far better than I do.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
But like from an observer from the outside and like
you know, a big fan of the NFL and covering
the NFL, it does feel like the heat has finally
reached like a real spot for Mike Tomlin where we've
gone through this before, but this one feels a little
different where it's like, yeah, it's crazy that the team
is exactly the same yet again for like the tenth
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year in a row.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Last year was the year that the seat got hot
on a level that it hadn't before. But it was
never he was never in danger of getting fired. A
lot of people were like, this is a joke. It's
the same thing year after hear and then they did
this hold on, hold on, wait to see what we
have up our sleeve for next year, and then they
go out and give Slay ten million dollars. They bring
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in Jalen Ramsey on that trade with John new They
get rid of Minka and bring those two in, and
they're like, this is gonna fit perfect. We're gonna be
able to cover everybody. We're gonna have shutdown man coverage
on defense. And then you know they'd given Patrick Queen
that big contract before that, and then Aaron Rodgers ends
up coming here and DK Metcalf and they spend all
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this money and they're like, uh huh, that's right, we're
fixing this.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
And it is just garbage.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
And so the noise that we've been hearing here Big
Cat finally has permeated enough of the national bubble because
the problem is, and here's what has been pissing us
off forever in Pittsburgh is that we've been saying, like, dude,
this is not working.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
And then you get everybody on ESPN going.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Oh, the Steelers would be crazy to fire Mike Toms, right,
all of those guys. Now there's only a couple of them.
Now there's only Will Bond saying that, and a couple
of other guys in ESPN. Now you got Colin Colin
Cowherd going yeah, maybe it's time for him to move on.
You know, you got Ben Roethlisberger going on his podcast
and saying that Mike Tomlins should coach Penn State, which
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I'm sure, Yeah, he didn't do to piss him off
at all. He just was just naing off fering opinion.
He wasn't trying to get under my skin, you know.
And so that's how it's changed. It's the national perspective
on this big cat is that, you know what, maybe
those Pittsburgh's weren't just a bunch of spoiled fans.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Maybe they have a point.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Yeah, and you guys do have a point.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
We've been saying for over a year now that it's
like because I remember.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
That this point changed in my mind.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
It was probably about last year around this time where
we had this discussion. I was like, for the longest time,
I was like, how can Steelers fans be upset? I
would do anything to get in the playoffs every year.
I do anything to be over five hundred. And then
last year, after watching that team again, I was like, yeah,
I don't know how you could watch this team and
be excited about it knowing that it's gonna be the
exact same result every single year and nothing is changing,
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and nothing is you know, like that Bills game. You guys,
the Bills just ran the same play over and over
and over right down your throat. It's fit. That's bad coaching,
and so I yeah, I agree with you, Like I see,
I still think.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
I think Rex.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Ryan is another one who's still hold out. He said
something like Mike Tomlin would get a job in a
second if that's Steelers finals. I don't know if that's
totally true. Like, I think you get another shot somewhere
else eventually, but I don't think everyone's like, you know, running,
you know, banging down the door for Mike Tomlin. At
this point, you might have to do a little self
reflection and go, you know, pick a year off before
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he becomes a hot commodity.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Even if he did go somewhere.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I mean, Andy Reid is the comparison that I've always
used here where it's like it stopped working for him
in Philly.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Then he had that four and twelve season or whatever
it was.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
And they finally bounce him after getting so close and
sniffing it a few times. He goes on to win
championships and they win two Super Bowls with two different
coaches since then it was a mutually beneficial parting. I
kind of think that's where they are right now. But
I have to say I know that you guys on
pardon my take, highlighted our buddy Seth Roorbas tweet which
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was the most I mean, this is Nostradamus stuff. Mike
Tomlin will say something like we can't eat soup with forks,
we need spoons. Then the Steelers will sign a twenty
eighteen pro bowler to the practice squad, and don't they
go two days later and sign Adam Thielen, who was
a member of the two thousand in Innate Pro Bowl.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
This, this alone should get Mike Tomlin fired. When you're
so easily parodied, Like the parody is so easy to
do and it's so on the nose, that alone, like
should get him fired. That's just you can't have you
can't like, if you're Mike Tomlins, you've got to have
someone in that building be like like when you're when
(23:23):
you're talking to to Adam Thielen's agent, be like, hey, sir,
just before we do this, Like I just I want
to let you know what Seth tweeted, We should get
ahead us. Yeah, they know they're onto us, and they
this might look bad in the public, and it did
look bad. It looks ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Well, let me ask you this. Let's let's turn it
over to your team, because to me, this is the
game of the week. The Bears yea and the Packers
at Lambeau. It's gonna be subfreezing temperatures, maybe some flurries
like flying around like the picturesque Bears Packers matchup. This
isn't I tonic uniform clash on the most heralded football
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field in the league. And now, finally, for the first
time in a long time, both teams are good. Both
teams are good, and your Bears have a chance to
keep a clasp on the number one seed in the
conference that I did not see coming. And you did
all of this without Caleb Williams actually playing great.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He's he's doing okay.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
So my question to you is this, what is your
confidence level going in against what has traditionally been, at
least in recent history, the Bears Kryptonite.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Oh, I mean it's not even I don't even think
it's kryptonite, because kryptonite, like I feel like Superman puts
up like a tiny bit of.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Fight against kryptonite. We haven't done any.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Of that, So I am I'm weirdly confident. Now here's
the other thing I am. It ties in purplectly the
Mike Common discussion. When you get a code that you
feel confidence in, it does give you a little bit
of a calmness, where like Ben Johnson, I just have
the utmost confidence in him and his plan and what
he's done for this organization and the culture. And we
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play the Packers again in two weeks, and it's not
like so I'm going into this game weirdly like, yes,
I obviously want to win, and I actually do, in
my heart of hearts thinks the Bears can win. But
I also know we play them again in two weeks
and I'm not gonna freak out if we lose because.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Ben Johnson will find a way.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
And it's like, find a way to split this And
the reason why you go nine and three to start
the seasons. You give yourself a cushion where not every
game makes you freak out. But I'm so excited that
Bears actually have a team that I feel like can
compete with anyone and we can run the football we
have an identity. That's really what it comes down to,
is like having an identity. You guys know this, like
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when the Steelers have an identity. There's you just go
in and you're like, hey, we know we can do
this better than anyone else, and it's up to you
to figure out how to stop it. And our ability
to the football has been that This year is so
much fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Yeah, and you know, getting some takeaways too would be big.
Jordan Love seems to be getting better this year though.
That's gonna be a fun one. I'm hoping the Bears win.
That'll make that that whole conference more fun if they
keep winning.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And it's hard.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
It's impossible to not be a fan of Ben Johnson
ripping off his shirt, doing the whole you know, getting
the Wieners circle to to give out free hot dogs
on Tuesday. I think they gave out a thousand hot
dogs after he did the shirtless celebration.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
The dude's kind of jack too. For what it's worth,
Oh big time.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I said I would leave my wife for him. So
she found out about that. She wasn't happy, but I said,
I was like, listen, I like, I don't think he
wants to leave his wife for me.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Right, but if he if I get the call, like.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
He's he's my home, he's your guy.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, I'm not gay, so I don't care. Like I
just we just live together. We'll just have like a
you know, like a relationship where we.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Just live together and just hang out.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Yeah, it was Aaron Rodgers' birthday the other day? Did
did he ever return your birthday messae him?
Speaker 8 (27:01):
He did not? I don't. I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I don't expect to return.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
What did you say?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
I just a happy birthday friend?
Speaker 8 (27:11):
And uh no.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
No response. I actually am like it's it's crazy. I
think it's maybe just like the fact that he hasn't
been a packer for you know whatever it is three
four years now, Like I actually am starting to feel
bad for him because that was it's just like that
shot of him with his.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Nose golf agled.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
And just like yeah, yeah, it's just like.
Speaker 8 (27:35):
What are you doing?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Man? You got so much money, Go go live your
life somewhere else, Like this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
But that's the look on his face. The look on
his face is like I shouldn't have done this. That's
kind of how I was reading it, Like I shouldn't
have done this.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Yeah, like he shouldn't have left the Packers, Like, and
I know that was obviously there's more of the packers coming,
you know, drafting Jordan Love and all that, but like
this is he's he's he's gone through the gauntlet last
three years and I'd imagine this has gotta be it.
And so he probably didn't have the best birthday ever.
But Adam feeling that's a nice birthday present.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yes, well, maybe he'll show up to the film study.
It's home. It's Oh, it's crazy.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
You have retirement home.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
It's crazy, dude.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Mike Tomlin is the guy I say, like, he's the
guy who goes around in your house and you're like, hey,
this soap dispenser's out of soap. He's like, no, it's not.
And then he puts a ton of water in it.
He's like, he's like, plenty of soap left in this.
You're like there's none.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
There's literally you just you're washing your hands with water.
He's like, there's so much soap in here. This is
elite soap.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
And you're like, there's no soap left none.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It tries Oh man.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
It's so true though, it's so true. It's like just anyone,
anyone who was good ten years ago, they're gonna be
a steeler.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
He adopts thirteen year old dogs exclusively, like just old
dogs in his house. You walk in, they're all like
walking around, limping and stuff like that. He's got to
get his medicine twice a day. But he's a good dog.
A lot of fetch left in him. Think about it.
Think of all the busts. One Thornhill, Darius Slayh One
(29:11):
Thornhill is the one that got the whole historic defense discussion.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This was all happened on our show Big Cat. One.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
One Thornhill says, yeah, this could this defense has a
chance to be one of the best of all time.
And then Tom and came on with us, and we
followed up with hey, one Thornhill just said, you guys
can be one of the best of all time. And
he said we could do great things and by that
I mean historic And they are absolutely abysmal. It's so
far away from what they thought they were going to
(29:38):
be able to do. And that's the problem. They can't
assess talent here. They think they have something so much
better than they do.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
And and and another one is like George Pickens should
get by Tom and fired as well.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
Oh my god, crazy, Like that's coaching.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
That's He's the best wide receiver in the league right now.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
He was so fun to watch.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
He was so fun to watch even if we was
you know, he wasn't as gonna be as good here
as he is in Dallas. I mean, it was fun
to watch him karate kick somebody on a route that
he's not involved in, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, and now that.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Yeah, that that.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
I was actually jogging with someone the other day. Like, like,
getting older in life, you realize, like when you're in
your you know, teenage years and your twenties and like
you're you're kind of dumb about sports, and you see
like a player leave your your franchise and they do
great things, and you're like, oh, that's just bad luck.
I can't believe that happened. Then you then you have
the aha moment where you're like, no, that's just coaching.
(30:36):
Like if if a player leaves and is awesome without
your like outside of your organization, that means they're starting
to get coached correctly. That's all it is.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, and there's a couple of those guys, Kevin Dotson
being one of them recent memory that have left the
Steelers and gone on to great things after we gave
up on them.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
My last thing I have for you, I tried to.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I went on the Fish's ticket outlet yesterday to sign
up for Sphere shows just to see if I could
get anything, and the price for Fish at the Sphere,
I'm like, I'll see if I can reserve four tickets.
They make you pay for your tickets, whether you're gonna
get them or not. It comes out of your your
bank account. Yes, you have to pay for them no
matter what. And it's three hundred a ticket. So a
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three day pass to get four to three day passes
thirty six hundred bucks. And I'm like, there's no way
I'm doing this. I can't look. I would love to
see them there because after seeing Dead and Company there,
it was so much fun. And Fish does an even
more unique show. Every single night is a different Sphere
(31:38):
show for them. They spend a lot of money on it,
but I think I'm gonna draw the line on a
three hundred dollars face value ticket for a concert.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
I think that's fair. I think that's absolutely fair. I
thought the same thing when I was like, all right,
I want to go, and I probably will go, But
like that is I didn't realize that part of it
that you have to pay before.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah, I mean it's there's got to be a limit
to all.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
This stuff eventually, right, like the regular But that's that's
also like I guess I'm not to the same level
of you know, like money that we're asking for our fans.
But like we did sell like hank Dog toys over
Black Friday, and those sold out right away. So if
there's a demand, I guess you got to just do it.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Were they three hundred dollars apiece because you missed out?
If they weren't, they weren't.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
There were twenty dollars apiece. We sold five hundred of
them in eighty seven seconds. We disclculated how many to order.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
Had we had like three thousand people on the wait
list within the first ten minutes, we really messed that
one up. We could have sold probably like one hundred
thousand hank Dog toys.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
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Speaker 11 (33:59):
We'll get to that in just a second, but just
to kind of set the table for Sunday resumption to
one of the great rivalries in sports, and nobody's talking
about that, probably in either city.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Weird, well, because both fan bases are so down on
the team's performance this year.
Speaker 11 (34:17):
And yet they're playing for first place both teams. Yes,
and there's no clear cut favorite in the AFC where
if you were ever gonna sneak into the playoffs at
nine to eight, this would be the year you might
actually be able to do some damage.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
And this is the first of two games they'll play
this month with well, I guess the second game is
the first week of January. First, Yeah, but yeah, like
the Packers and the Bears are playing each other twice
in two weeks with the similar dynamic of whoever wins
is on top. So that one, because both those teams
have been playing, well, that's the national spotlight game this weekend,
that's the one. Everyone's like, this is the game of
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the weekend. But this has all the same ramifications.
Speaker 11 (34:53):
And better recent history because the Bears have stunked for
so long, right, Pittsburgh, Lee's the all time series thirt
six twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Steelers have actually won eight.
Speaker 11 (35:03):
Of the last eleven, all of them by a touchdown
or fewer points. But the Ravens have won the last two,
and both in convincing fashion, particularly in the playoffs. A
couple of the you know game within the game matchups.
They're almost identical statistically across the board, but there are
some differences. Red zone defense the Steelers are tenth in
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the NFL, and red zone offense the Ravens are thirtieth.
Believe it or not, it's because Lamar Jackson has not
been running because he's been hurt or trying not to
get hurt again. He only has one rushing touchdown. He
averages five a year. Steelers got to win defensive red
zone and then offensive red zone for Baltimore the Ravens.
(35:53):
The Ravens ranked sixth in red zone defense, the Steelers
rank fifth in red zone offense. So that's kind of
a toss up part when the Ravens getting a red
zone and Steels got to win that. When the Steelers
getting red zone, they gotta at least push that assuming
there will be opportunities and then takeaways. Baltimore is minus
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four on the season Pittsburgh's plus eight. That's a big disparity.
Ravens have been turning it over a lot. They don't
take the ball away. So the Steelers got to win takeaway.
Probably say that every week and.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Well, because it's the only way they can win right now,
and a lot of people are criticizing them for that
is the makeup of their defense. The strategy is get takeaways,
huge splash plays and let them run rampant in between.
Speaker 11 (36:40):
Yeah, well, I don't know about to let them run part,
but they seem to be running.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Sack differential.
Speaker 11 (36:48):
The Ravens have a minus fifteen sack differential and they
have one of the hardest quarterbacks in the NFL to sack.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
That speaks to.
Speaker 11 (36:55):
Their lack of rush and to Lamar's somewhat limited physical state.
This year, Pittsburgh's plus twelve Steelers have registered thirty four
sacks and allowed twenty two. Baltimore's registered nineteen and allowed
thirty four. So turnovers, splash defense, takeaways and sacks the trend.
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There seems to be an opportunity there for the Steelers. Then,
with just the basic playing of football, obviously you got
to stop their running game. We could talk about that
from now until kickoff, who knows if they'll do it
or not. The way the Bengals attacked the Ravens was
interesting to me. They did a lot of really steealer
like things. For the first two and a half quarters.
They attacked the perimeter, They threw short into the outside,
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they got the ball out, quick play action bootleg with Burrow.
They ran to the outside perimeter, perimeter, perimeter, and then
mid to late third quarter like Rocky switching back to
the left handed or however that work. Then they went
down the middle a couple times and scorched them almost
like love them into a foot sense of security that
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they weren't going to go over the middle, and then
they attack the middle. Uh, the guy you want to attack.
I've been saying this for a couple of years. Marlon
Humphy's had a great career at their cornerback number forty four.
You can get behind him, remember a couple of years ago,
pick at the pickens with the game on the line,
you can.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Get behind him.
Speaker 11 (38:20):
Bengals took one on one shots deep, a lot of them.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
They didn't hit.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Who's running those Austin and DK.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
I mean probably not Austin probably see him this week.
No or not Austin not DK. I wouldn't think he's
not the deep ball guy.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Well maybe he is.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I don't know who has just been doubled up so
much he can't get get loose.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
But occasionally get a one on one. I mean they
got chased behind him one time. It's not they don't
get doubled every down, despite what people like to say.
When I say people, I mean the participants. Right, Oh,
you can't get a DK. He's doubled everything. Now you
just got to recognize when he's not and you got
to take your show. Bengals missed a fair amount of times,
but they hit a couple. They got a pass interference penalty.
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And part of this, and I think this plays right
into Aaron Rodgers' wheelhouse. They got a rookie or not
a rookie safety safety they traded for from the Chargers,
a low high Gilman. He starts and Malachi starks as
a rookie of the other safety.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Gilman in particular.
Speaker 11 (39:26):
Will kind of line up like he's gonna double but
it's almost like a Feine double coverage. Then he either
looks inside or moves inside at the snap. If Rogers
can detect when it's actually double coverage and when it isn't,
which we saw him do that in New England. I mean,
Baltimore's whole defensive philosophy seems to be lining up a
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bunch of guys at the line of scrimmage. Everybody's faking
a blitz. They don't blitz that often, but you don't
know who's coming, and you don't know where the guys
were dropping are gonna go. That's what they're trying to
They're trying to confuse a quarterbacks because they can't get there,
right Can they confuse Aaron Rodgers or can they get
there against Aaron Rodgers? Which they don't they'll normally do,
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but if they do, it's a problem.
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Good morning, morning team. I hope you all had a
good turkey day.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Oh dude, I had a great one. How about you?
Do you have a good one.
Speaker 12 (41:19):
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Speaker 7 (41:26):
How?
Speaker 12 (41:27):
How long?
Speaker 7 (41:27):
What?
Speaker 5 (41:27):
How long did you keep eating turkey? What day did
you stop eating turkey? Because I I think.
Speaker 12 (41:32):
I got turkey sandwich last night?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, me too, me too.
Speaker 7 (41:35):
I took it.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
I took it to yesterday and I had and I
had one piece of pumpkin pie left and I'm looking
at it going nope, not eating that.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
Yeah, I can't do.
Speaker 12 (41:43):
I'm thinking of doing some turkey salad. But I say,
I've had my fill.
Speaker 8 (41:47):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
But how surprised are you about Penn State's coaching predicament.
Speaker 12 (41:55):
Well, I you know, I told you guys at the
time I didn't like the firing. I like James Bryantanklin.
I know they you know, and know his record and
against top ten teams and all that stuff. But even
if they were going to do that, I thought they
should have waited to the end of the year. And
while this looks like a complete botch job by Pat
Kraft and the way everything's going, you know, Todd mcshay's
(42:18):
revelation about this Jimmy Sexton thing, I think is explaining
a lot. And you know, he was Franklin's agent who
has taken at them for firing him, and he has
steered all of his clients away from Penn State, orchestrated
extensions for a lot of guys. Chesney's the James Madison
coach who was supposedly they were interested in, you know,
(42:38):
he takes another job somewhere else. So I think there's
been some things, some vendetta against Penn State there which
might explain it a little bit. It's not going to
make the you know, the alumni or the fan base
any happier though, So I didn't like the firing at
the time, but I am very surprised if they've had
this much trouble. You know, ESPN listed it as d
(42:58):
that in the LSU job was the two top available
jobs when all these coaching jobs were available, and now
they've all been filled. I think that's the frustrating part.
You fired the guy in mid season, you think to
get a head start on getting your next guy. I
believe UCLA was the only school that fired a guy
earlier than them Yet LSU, Florida Ole, miss Auburn, now
South Florida. Of course, Virginia Tech have all got their
(43:21):
coaches in line, and Penn State's recruiting classes now barely
ahead of perryview A and m guy.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
Ben Roethlisberger suggested on his podcast this week that it
might be time for a fresh start for Mike Tomlin
and Steeler fans. They also suggested, you know, maybe Tomlin
should go to Penn State where he might win some
national titles.
Speaker 12 (43:41):
Nah, that ain't happened. I would be you know, I
don't necessarily think he would be a terrible fit there,
he's not gonna want to do that. He would do
that as a giant step down. And even when they're
talking about Brian Dabo and guys like that, I mean,
anybody coming from the NFL, there's still a bit of
a learning curve when it comes to re recruiting nil
(44:01):
money transfer portal. It's a totally different game than what
you're coaching in the NFL. Whoever they hire, I hope
is a guy would college experience, not NFL experience, or
a little both.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
Well, I mean, let's agree that Ben was just trying
to bust his balls in yeah, and didn't anticipate that
that would get thrown into the national you know, sports
talk menu for the day, because every single show talked
about the potential of Mike Tomlin going to Penn State.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Which had to have unnerved coach t to know.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
And the guy who said never say never, but never
there aren't boosters who can write a check big enough
for me to go to college because.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
He sees it as a huge step down.
Speaker 12 (44:44):
Well, well, Ben probably knew exactly that he would get
all this exactly. Well, if you remember you met guys,
remember John Burton Channel four a.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Week jab he's the best.
Speaker 12 (44:53):
Oh yeah, well he actually Okay. So Bill Cower was
rumored to maybe be interested in the NC State job
where he played and our station down and Rawleigh wanted
us to ask him at the pret weekly press conference
about the rumors that he could be headed to NC State. Well,
John Burton at that time was covering the Cower press
(45:15):
conference on Tuesdays. He said, there is no way I'm
going to ask him that question. It's not happening. Well,
the news director at Channel four at the time then
pulled his press He said, you're not covering the press
conference anymore. We're sending Sheldon Ingram So they said, Sheldon
Ingram down.
Speaker 5 (45:32):
Sheldon's terrifying, So that was probably a good move.
Speaker 8 (45:36):
He is.
Speaker 12 (45:38):
But you also, if you're gonna get down there every
single week and try to get information and talk to
Bill Cowherd, you can't ask him a question when you
know it's that.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
Asked exactly exactly. Send Sheldon in to do the dirty
he's the wolf.
Speaker 9 (45:52):
Man.
Speaker 12 (45:53):
So did he do it?
Speaker 8 (45:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (45:55):
Sheldon did. Yeah, and I don't think JB covered. After
a cup full of weeks, that all blew over and
JB was back to covering the weekly press conference, but
it was a big, you know, a big hubbub in
the newsroom over all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
Oh yeah, you'd have to wear a spit cut like
mask to ask Hower that question because it would be
flying after you asserted that he might leave the Steelers
for North Carolina State Louise. All right, Well, you know
what stinks about the game this weekend is, you know,
we've been comparing it to the two You know, this
time of year you get a lot of rivalry games,
and there's you know, the longest running rivalry in the NFL,
(46:30):
in the Packers and the Bears.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
Those guys facing each other with.
Speaker 5 (46:33):
Unique circumstances on the line here being that they're both
good for a change. It's been a long time since
twenty ten, the NFC championship game that determined who would
go on to face the Steelers, and.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
They I think eleven and zero.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
The Packers were with Matt Lafleur in the last twelve
games before having lost last year's finale. They've just been
owning it. It's not much of a rivalry when one
team beats up on the others and Bears are good
again and everyone's looking at that game, going, oh, Man,
this is gonna be a classic matchup. But the Steelers
and the Ravens are the same thing. They're just in
(47:09):
a different place. They're still fighting for number one guy.
It just doesn't have a luster that that one does.
Speaker 8 (47:16):
Well.
Speaker 12 (47:17):
I was glad that here pursuit of breaking the game
down a little bit in his last sportscast before he
left there, because my thoughts were the same as you guys.
I haven't heard a word all week about this game.
All I've heard about is, you know, tomlins unseat. Is
he going to be fired?
Speaker 5 (47:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (47:30):
He going depends, you know. And it's I mean, it's
understandable if you look, I mean, forget the small picture
and all this stuff, look at the big picture. A
year ago this weekend, they beat the Browns to go
to ten and three. Since then, there's six and eleven.
That's the equivalent of a full season. And and you know,
both teams are coming off embarrassed. You know, in Baltimore,
(47:51):
they thought they had a team that was gonna be
a Super Bowl compender. They're sitting there six and six.
They're disappointed. They got embarrassed by the Bengals on Thanksgiving.
The Steelers were you know, slapped around by Buffalo, and
I think both fan bases are sitting there thinking, oh God,
we're gonna see Moore of the same against our most
hated rival. Instead of going into it like foaming purple
at the mouth in Baltimore and paint your face black
(48:13):
and golden Pittsburgh, I think it's more afraight, like, oh man,
it's gonna happen again.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
Yeah, it's a one o'clock game, Steelers and the Ravens.
And I just do not understand for the life of me, guy,
how that defense is so Jeckyll and Hide. And I
don't even know if i'll I mean, I guess you
have to give him the full credit of being good
when you stop Jonathan Taylor, when you shut down the
Bears running attack, you know, to the more formidable rushing
(48:39):
teams in the league. But how could it be that
just I mean, unorganized is the only word I can
think of. They look like they had no idea what
they were doing against the Bills.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
How do you let that happens.
Speaker 12 (48:56):
When when Tony Romo is sitting in the press watching says,
they're just running two plays, They're running the same two place,
but they can't figure that. You know where coaching comes
into most in football to me is at halftime. There's
the perfect time where you sit there you adjust to
let us go forget whatever whatever happened the whole season,
what happened in the first two quarters of that game.
That's what you have to adjust to in the second half.
(49:18):
The Steelers have been outscored in the third quarter almost
every game this year. They've been outscored in the second
half one hundred and seventy eight to one hundred and
twenty nine. Four of their six losses they led at halftime.
I think there's severely being out coached in the second half.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
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Speaker 8 (49:42):
Guy.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Thanks as always, buddy. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 12 (49:45):
All right, guys, have a good week.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
Okay, we'll see you. Running a little late here so
we got to get out quick.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
But thanks to Big cafroin barstool Sports, Thanks the guy,
Thanks to Missy Matthews, and thanks for every buddy Ted
Whistle for hanging out with us here this morning and
come back and hang next week if you can.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
I would love to teach okay i'by.
Speaker 5 (49:59):
World on Nice All Right tomorrow. Dave Danischek's on the
show Sean Collier. But Abby, we've been remiss in not
mentioning something really big that our dear friends are doing.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
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There's two days left, so if you want to be
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And all you have to do is bring a new
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(50:35):
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works too. All Right, that's it for us. Michelle's up
next with the electrical Lunch at noon. Have a great day, everybody.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
I'm finished.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
You stay classy. Pittsburgh, don't touch your face.
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He got him type Pittsburgh all day baby.
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So now you guys call me Ronald.
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