January 5, 2026 • 40 mins
Gerry Dulac thinks now that the Steelers are in the playoffs and for the most part healthy, all bets are off and the team can make a run.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A radio station guaranteed human. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Boswell's point attempt is no good.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It drifts wide right, and now a field goal. We'll
win it for the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh my goodness, first extra point miss of this season
for Chris Boswell.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Max Starks, Oh my goodness, next to Rob King and
his goodness, gracious.
Speaker 6 (00:37):
Golly mine.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
I didn't even look up to see that extra point.
I was still celebrating the Calvin Austin touchdown, the twenty
six yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers when bos missed
that extra point.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Boss had not been hitting the ball well.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
They talked about the fact that he had a brutal
pregame and wasn't hitting those long kicks the way we're
accustomed to. He still muscles through a fifty seven yarder
early in the game. He think all right, But in
the back of my mind, I was like, I don't
like the way any of these kicks are looking. He's
just not hitting the ball well. It says it got blocked.
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I still haven't seen that. You know, the official score
sheet says that that was a blocked extra point that
almostanding all of a sudden. The Steelers are now only
two points up on the Ravens and you think, okay,
fifty five seconds, we just can't let them get across midfield.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And then this was the ensuing kickoffs.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's Boswell with a boot, come down to Mitchell at
the five yard line, right in the middle of the field,
going to angle toward the right, and gets to the
twenty five, crosses the thirty to thirty five to forty
and it's Boswell who chases him out of bounds, but
all the way out to the forty seven yard line.
Oh that is a big, big return, a forty two yarder.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Then I started to turn it off, the lights just
that all right, time to go to bed.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
I know you want to start disengaging your emotions from that.
At that point you say, don't hurt me too much.
I'm gonna build my walls back up.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yeah, because you know, if he makes the extra point
and they kick a field will to tie. Even then
I'm thinking, all right, well, let's just hey, you're tying
tie is good for the Steelers if they can survive
ot But also I didn't think they were stomping us.
After Cayle Hamilton got hurt, and I thought that Arthur
Smith had learned his lesson and started to rely on
running the ball to set up.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
The pass game. Well and Warren were both great last night.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
That first half, though Derrick Henry ran wild and then
in the second half non factor.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The Steelers defense rose up.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Cam Hayward played maybe the best game I've ever seen
him play and he's thirty six years old. He led
all interior defensive linemen this year in plays. He had
a remarkable year. And for all the people who got
upset with the way that he handled the contract situation
at the beginning of the year, I completely understand that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But to have given up on this guy.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
And people watching him thinking not thinking he had an
amazing year, It's just crazy how you can watch the
same game and take away something completely different. To me,
that guy was an absolute monster all year long, and
last night Cam Hayward had a game that they needed
him to have and at thirty six, I didn't expect it.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Collinsworth also kind of hipped me to something that I
didn't really know when he was talking about how Cam
has to cover. He's a two gap lineman, which means
like it doesn't matter which way the running back goes.
He's responsible for both of them, like he has to
have his arms out just to collect whoever comes through there.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And that gave me a new appreciation when he's getting
double teams less and right.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
And he was destructive and disruptive, and it allowed them
to do some things defensively.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
They took some chances.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That first touchdown passed from Lamar to a wide open
devontees Walker for the thirty eight yarder on and was
that fourth down?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I believe it was fourth down.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
They scored a couple of fourth Little Banker had a
couple of big fourth downs last conversions last night. The
defense held up except for plays in which they were
an absolute mess. Why is nobody unsaved Flowers for a
sixty four yard touchdown reception?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Was he even targeted before that?
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Though?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I don't even know if he had one reception before that.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I think that fifty yard touchdown was his first target,
even sixty four yard or.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
He in sixty four?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
That to me though in weirdly, as I was looking
at it and there was two and change two twenty,
I think on the clock, I thought, right, this actually
actually might work out in our favor here, you know,
this might be one of those let him scores so
we can get the rail back A long backgrounds and
they were brilliant in controlling the clock last night.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The Steelers.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
This is a lesson that it took them way too
long to learn this year, but they learned it just
in time. Time of possession thirty four to thirty four,
eleven to twenty five to forty nine. They win last night.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That was big.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Also, the interception that TJ came up with, I would
have liked to have seen him come up with more
than a field goal in response. There there were a
couple of times where I thought they left some points
on the board. That was definitely one of them. But
that was the defense making big plays last night. You
needed them to. With no DK Metcalf, you anticipated, well,
they're not going to be able to do a lot offensively.
But then when Hamilton gets hurt. I'll tell you what
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Aaron Rodgers was. He could have put up thirty seven
points on that On that team last night, they had
some opportunities, particularly the one at the end of the
first half that I still don't love the way they
approached that. It's one of those things when Tomlin's conservative,
I bitch there he is living in fears and then
when he goes for it, I think that was the
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wrong play now and I still hate the play call
on that one, but I'm glad they had the mentality
they had with a win and in game against the
Ravens last night, you couldn't play it too safe, and
Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin head to head have had some
unbelievable matchups last night easily as entertaining as any Steelers
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Ravens game there has ever been, maybe not as much
as on the line as in the AFC Championship games.
Two thousand and nine is the one I'm thinking of,
But that game had it all. It was like if
Stefan was describing a football game, it would have been
that one.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Now do you find yourself as you get older, getting
a little more mellow about the rivalry Because when that
kicker missed the field goal, part of my heart broke
for him, Like I was like, dude, that guy is
about to like he looked.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Like he was gonna cry.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
He did, oh he was in years past, like I
would have been like Scott Farcas from a Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Story and be like, what are you going to cry for?
Cry for? Now?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I just feel kind of like, oh, that's his mom's
probably dying at home right now.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, well, empathy is in short supply these days, but
when it comes to sports, I always have it in
particular for you know, goalies kick the guy who guys
who get left out, you know, on their own in
a team sport. When I saw Harbaugh walking him up
the ramp with his arm around him and the kid
had his the gator pulled up over his nose, I mean,
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I just I couldn't help but feel like, oh God,
that poor well they like.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
They used to because the Bills Stadium. He's twenty two
years old, I know what I mean. That's the I mean,
he's a rookie. Like that's I guess. You know, this
is a fork in the road, Like you either crumble
at this one and say like forget this, this is
game isn't familiar, or you rally back.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But like, I don't know, I.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Always felt real bad because that dude who I forget
what his name is. Who's the kicker who missed all
the field goals for Buffalo Scott Norwood?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Are you think maybe Norwood?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
But they had a big montage of all the Bills
you know, memories because the bill Stadium is getting demolished,
their building a new one.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And that guy still.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
What is that thirty five years later, whenever it gets
brought up, he starts almost crying that he let the
team down, he let the off of him a field.
He just that one, that one, it's just rough. That
pressure is rough on that one. You don't have anybody
to blame but.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Your selling, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
And he held out for more money going into that year.
They paid him a lot of money. And the reason
I know that is because they signed a free agent
kicker named Charlie Bauman to go up. That was my
brother's first pro experience, was kicking instead of Scott Norwood.
But anyways, fast forward to the last night's Steelers Ravens game.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
When it came to offensive game plan, I didn't love
what they had going on. It just looked to me
like they were throwing together whatever they could instead of
relying on the two short things, which to me were
Jalen Warren and Gainwell, and my god, both of them
are gamers and in terms of yards after contact, those
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guys were warn allan. I will say I think it
was the first quarter Kenneth Gainwell had like eight of
our nine targets, and I was like, okay, getting a
little one dimensional here. It was check down I think
like six six plays in a row, and I was
getting a little frustrated with that. Well, you know what, though,
they were turning him into into some chunks and they
were getting themselves in position to convert, and they came
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up with some huge conversions in the second half. An
absolute shocker last night that that game ended the way
it did. I cannot believe Boswell misses an extra point
and then Loop misses the forty four yarder. The way
that it got set up from Mike Tarico to we
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played it last hour. Cherico, he gave us an announcer
Jinks for the aegis. We should everybody should send him
an email of thanks.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Today is tellinglikely how special that play was to set
up this moment for.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The rookie out of Arizona.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
The Ravens, of course, had justin Tucker for so long,
the most accurate kicker in the history of the league.
Rogers came believe what he has just witnessed, what might
be the end for him. But they went around the
country and spoke to a lot of the kickers who
were coming out, and they decided Tyler Loop was made
of the right stuff for moments like.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
This man, and I'm staring at the TV, staring up
all the lights are off.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'm gonna click it off and go to bed.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I'm just pissed beyond belief and I couldn't believe this
is how the football gones drew it up.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
And then.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
He now has a chance to win the division for
the Ravens the final play of the regular season for
the final spot in the playoffs, Tyler Loop from.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Forty four.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Could hold, Oh my grid, I'm the feelers.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm a chucking to the North. Steels are the champions
in the North.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Listening to that crowd, and by the way, kudos to
the sixty five who showed up last night at Agrosshire
Stadium in what was a tough ask of a Steeler fan.
It really was coming off a long holiday after you
lose to the Browns and you were probably not feeling great.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Here's what I think happened. Why was that crowd so
great last night?
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Because tickets to a Steelers Ravens game were low demands
if you look at ticket prices before that, going for
club seats for one hundred and change. Whoa wow, you
could get in for fifty dollars last night and sit
in a lower five hundred section.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
When the demand went down all of the sudden, a
lot of diehards who never get to go to the game,
who never get their renegade. By the way, I have
a renegade, take care for you in a second. Those
people made it him and it reminded me of the
Igloo versus Peace Paints Arena when the Igloo had you know,
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baked in season ticket holders who were regular Joes and
turned that place into every time it was important. It
was a just it was like a pressure cooker in there,
insanely loud.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Then PPG got a little corporate as.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Soon as wy Goo Beef came into Yeah, and that's
that was it for the fun people.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
All of a sudden, the ticket prices drop down to
a very reasonable amount, and you know, Joe and Jane
lunch pale Steeler fans come in with hoy ploy.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And muscle their way in there, and they were huge.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
T J.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Watt talked about it. Tomlin talked about it.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
The Steeler Nation performance last night, which could have gone
the other way.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Let's be yeah, let's be honest.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
I have to say, I think you're getting it's a
little revisionist history because it was teeter and pretty hard
in the first quarter. Okay, if that, if that tips
over the other way, they that hoy poloy that you
so Uh they might have been taking seats.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Home with them at that Okay, but it didn't and
they came through. All right.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Uh Now, Renegade colossal fail, but it did have a
big response from the fans. Here's what I think we
need to do because it breaks my heart when I
see people say, like, get rid of Renegade. The answer
is not to get rid of Renegade very simply play
Renegade in the first half. Stop putting so much of
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an onus on whether Renegade inspires a big needed defensive stand,
because now I think it's getting into the players heads.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, Like we gotta do something here.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
What if put it in the first half, everyone gets
their towel Waven experience and.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's hey, it just doesn't have as much weight to it.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I think maybe it shouldn't be mandated that it must
be played every game like the Bills game. They should
have just pocket vetoed that someone said play renegade, and
whoever's in charge said, we're gonna let this. This is
not a Renegade game today, and like, maybe you know,
only do it when you really need to. I've been
the games where they've played it twice.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yes, me too.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
I want to jump up your idea. Though, what if
you did it going into the second half. It was
a way to get people back in their seats.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Oh, it was like like these hurry up and get
out of the bathroom.
Speaker 12 (14:30):
Like everybody freaks out and they want to be part
of Renegade and everything, and then like you're hyping up
getting back.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
To the game regardless of what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I like this.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Okay, that's a good idea, Abby, I love it, although
you know it would take away the defense.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know, if we're getting the ball, that's the only thing.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Well, we're cutting it down either way. We're ding with
your idea.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, it's getting trimmed, that's right. Toe.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
But if that takes away some of the significance of it,
some of the onus and it gives everybody the experience
because the terrible towel research GINTS is in big part
due to the rennegade thing that that has helped sustain
and revive the Terrible Towel prominence at these games. And
keep in mind, the fiftieth anniversary of the Terrible Towel
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was this past December, and the team put out a
documentary on that. If you haven't seen it, it's great
and I was honored to be a small part of it.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Oh you were in it.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Yeah, they used my song, the Terrible Towel Song, because
it kind of highlighted those two thousands when when you know,
TJ houshman Zada was Rubbins, you know, and the Titans
buried the flag and it bit them both in the ass.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Immediately got to.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Tell you, there's an uber commercial that I don't really appreciate. It's,
you know, Bradley Cooper's there talking about all the teams
selling food, and he goes and you got the Steelers with.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Their little yellow napkins.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
And I feel like that kind of went out under
the radar for everybody calling it a little yellow napkin.
I don't know an Eagles fan calling it a little
yellow napkin.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
They're going to get theirs.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Yeah, he's got a bad bluffer upper bleff.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So you know, yeah, that's the plastic surgery.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yeah bluff, Yeah we got them.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah. Okay. So here's the good news.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Steelers now hosting the wild Card game against the Texans
on Monday night at home. Once again, these will not
be cheap tickets. This will not be an easy game.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
And on four PM game on Monday, let's go love that.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Unfortunately, it's an eight to fifteen kickoff here Monday night.
It will yeah, it'll, it'll finish out the wild Card weekend.
I wish you wouldn't even have a Monday night game,
but because the Texans are usually the first game on Saturday,
you know, in that crappy spot, A lot of teams
hate having that. I would love that at an Akroscher
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Stadium game on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Just an absolute blast.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Uh, lots to clean up between last week and this
week and Abby, we obviously got derailed here because of
last night's Steelers victory and didn't get to as many
things as we want to. But touch a couple of
bass you have to before we get to the break.
Speaker 12 (17:02):
I was gonna tell people that they could recycle their
Christmas trees. I don't know how pressing that is this morning.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But Christmas present. I felt like Jimmy Stewart. I wish
I was never a Feeler fan. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (17:15):
Yeah, this is only for people who have live Christmas trees.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Okay, but basically they won't just.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Dispense with your fake one. Well, I mean most fake
ones are just plastic and aluminum. You can probably recycle
those two.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
I mean, I I've always had a fake one. I
don't I don't mess with real trees anyway, because I
don't have the band with w.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, you have cats, your cats would be in your trees.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I have to.
Speaker 11 (17:39):
I have a hook that stays in the wall year
round that I have to like cover up with another
like a tree point. Yeah, and I hook it into
the wall just so in the cats if they do
climb up the thing, they don't knock the whole tree.
But Pittsburgh residents who do need to recycle their live
Christmas trees have several drop off locations that are going
to be available through January twenty six. There's eleven drop
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off sites for live Christmas trees. These are the public
works locations in Perry, North, East End, Hazelwood, and West End,
as well as additional locations in Highland Park, Squirrel Hill
on Southside. You go to Pittsburgh, PA dot gov for
all of the locations. Dropped off trees will later become
pine malts that's going to be available for the public
for free in the spring. Just make sure all the ornaments,
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the netting, the tinsel, then the lights are all removed
before you drop off your tree. And apparently other options
do include curb side pickups where the Girl Scout Troops
Initiative takes care of this. There's a small fee and
then they come and they actually come get you.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
If you're like most people in the outskirts of Pittsburgh,
that thing's going on the burn pile. And let me
tell you, throwing a Christmas tree on the burn pile,
that's a that's a delicacy. That is a delicacy. So
you only get to do that once a year. It's
like dropping napalm on something like I mean, you realize
how unbelievably explosive Christmas trees apparently are cracking.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Miss some tinsel.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
I will save the critics choice of Wars for maybe
next hour, because we can go ahead and jump in
there because you mentioned a couple of shows that you
were talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
That now I'm interested in. Oh yeah, Mike, we were.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Telling about my Christmas vacation this year was a lot
of My mom got sick, like so many people did,
and it knocked out our Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And I made up for it by cocooning and watching
what do they call it bed rotting?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I wasn't in bed. I was couch rotting. Yeah, no
it's not. I just couldn't. Yeah, no, yeah, it's couch rotting,
couch trotty. I love that. I'm jealous.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I had some workouts in there and everything. I'm just saying,
like the amount of nothing that I did was considerable.
He just like, yell to your girlfriend, turn me roll.
I have a Rotisseri chicken when we come back. Mike
pursuita joins US Steelers twenty six Ravens twenty four.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Was that it for Lamar and Harbaugh together.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Lamar last night posted on social media a still of
scronic leverage being on the missed field goal, thinking that
should have been called. I guess we'll talk to Geene
Stairtor about that tomorrow. The refs they gave it and
they taketh away.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Dude.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
I saw with Lamar, I saw a split screenshot of
him like watching the field goal, and for the first
seven eighths of that play he thought it was in.
He was walking on the field, arms up, and then
he immediately just slowly put his arms down and walked
and found T. J. Watt and shook his hand and
went back to the locker room. Another guy, I kinda
he just can't quite get the uh the Steelers bug
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off his back.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I mean, dude, the one touchdown to Zay Flowers where
Benton and high Smith have him sacked and he steps
forward and throws the bomb.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It just seemed like, is this preordained? Is there?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Is this just something?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
He looks phenomenal, like, he looks unbeatable, gets.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
A step, wants to throw it back to past pressure, combing, hit,
spinning down of his sack, waiting, rowing, lobbing deep down
field and caught for a touchdown by say Flowers. Oh,
tremendous play by Lamar Jackson and from fifty yards out.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Just like that, the Ravens have retaken the league.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
He does stuff like that, But I'll tell you right now,
Ravens fans are gonna look at that last drive and
they're gonna ask some questions about some of the things
that some of the opportunities that he did not say
he had d Hop just sitting there, but he really
wanted him to go for a big g. D Hop
could have run all the way down to like the
twenty and there would have been a lot of time
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left there.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I don't know getting him in position with fifty seconds left,
forty yard.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Field, fourth and seven and that ball to Isaiah likely
step back, the pass pressure coming steps up, floats down
field and it is caught a leaping grab by Isaiah
likely at the twenty two yard line, and the Ravens
have called time out.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I mend his catch a twenty eight yard pickup only
twelve seconds for Maine here at Akroshur Stadium.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
No herbig on the field on that one, No kem Hayward.
My dog was barking NonStop because I was screaming.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Please, you're upset. I'm upset. My dog was so upset.
That's really what this is. My poor dog.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
He just when does Steeler games go on, he is
on high alert. He's very worried. Thank god, I put
that little barrel full.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Of rum under you. I can come pull you out.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Mike's got a full report on last night Steelers win
and it's onto Monday night football wild Card weekend. We'll
end with Steelers Texans and a home playoff game from
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Speaker 5 (23:24):
It's got to be a decent day, a mix of
sun and cloud's warmer high close to fifty.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, still, just.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Try to come down from last night's Steelers' big world. Uh.
The thing that we haven't even really talked too much about.
We joked about a last sports cast, the fact they
had a priest go out and put holy water in
the end zone. That Tyler Loop ended up shaking the
game away on will go down as one of the
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most retold Steeler focal historic story right there. That will
be something we talk about forever.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
I think we've proven one thing is that Tyler Loop
is a Satanist clearly.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Why else? Well maybe, well, who.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Knows, Maybe that you know a lot of people are
like he was administering last rites.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Tomlin's done. I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Maybe they should sell like those holy water, like Steeler holywater,
you know, flickers.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, if you do that, then.
Speaker 14 (24:25):
You're advocating fans throw stuff on each other.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's already going on.
Speaker 13 (24:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, that actually might be blasphemic.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I don't know, but somehow it sure worked for the
Steelers last night, twenty six, twenty four MIC.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Sports is Up, brought to you by Bridgeville.
Speaker 14 (24:41):
Appliance to heroes were many in number last night at
Actress Stadium on both sides of Steelers. Ravens quarterback Aaron
Rodgers was among them, if not the most heroic of all.
Emerging from that had to have it win or else
Steeler's victory over Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And yes, Mike Tomlins saw that coming.
Speaker 15 (25:01):
I've ad married him from Afar for a long time.
It's good to do it with him. But again, as
I've said multiple times here in recent weeks, this was
the vision in the spring when we pursued him. That's
why you do business with a forty one, forty two
year old guy. Been there, done that guy with a
resume like his, He's not only capable man, he thrives
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in it.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
And I think he put that on display tonight.
Speaker 14 (25:29):
Yeah, it wasn't wrong about Rogers still having it at
forty two years of age. And Tomlin also wasn't wrong
about the way Rogers responded when the Steelers got the
ball down by four with at that juncture two minutes
and twenty seconds left in their season.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Yeah, I mean, that's what you want.
Speaker 16 (25:49):
You want the ball in your hands with two twenty
left and you need a touchdown.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
That's exactly what you want.
Speaker 16 (25:58):
And I was calm all day long, you know, with
the gravity of the game and knowing what was in
store for us. But I was confident that I was
going to play a good game and that I could
kind of be the magnetic force out there to keep
guys confident and calm, And even that two minute I
(26:20):
was like, yeah, yeah, we're good. We're gonna go down
score and don't worry about a voice. But I think
that's that's part of it, being the old guy. I
have a lot of gray in your beard. Is they
expect things from you, and it's nice to be able
to deliver in moments like that.
Speaker 14 (26:33):
Yeah, that's more legendary stuff. Don't worry about it, boys,
We're gonna get out.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And score sixty five yards, six plays, no timeouts, eighty
five seconds on that final touchdown drive.
Speaker 14 (26:43):
Calvin Austin, who caught what turned out to be the
game winning touchdown pass from Rogers, also fitted himself for
a cape, but as it turns out, it took a
little convincing.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Calvin's the sweetest guy.
Speaker 16 (26:56):
I mean he is just ever since the Malibu tripping
the off season, just I have such a love and
appreciation for cal and his disposition, and multiple times in
the huddle I'm asking him on various plays, what do
you want on the backside? What do you want on
the backside? And he wouldn't give me a straight answer.
And on this on this particular huddle conversation, I said,
(27:20):
what do you want? Cal He said, and somebody to
my right. I don't know if it was McCormick or
or Pat said something about like man, just go cook
him or something.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
So I said, all right, call you run a hitch
and go back there.
Speaker 16 (27:33):
And I was, you know, I was really thinking the
front side three man combination that we worked and had
success with most of the night was kind of my
first thought. But I just peeked back to the left
and saw number three slip and you know, to give me,
give me touchdown. But I'm proud of proud of Calvin,
and the line really gave me a lot of time
all day.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
They played really well.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
You know, everybody's a lot of reaction of amazement. Well,
how could they be so bad against cleeved and so
good against Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Baltimore doesn't have Miles Garrett.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
Nobody has Miles Garrett except Cleveland Steelers have Teacher wat
There are other good edge rushers, but Baltimore has no
pass rush. It changes the game when you can block
with five and when you have some time to let
stuff develop. Those edge rushers, that's why they get so
much money, is because even when they don't get sacks,
they impact the game.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
People think TJ. Watts had a terrible year.
Speaker 14 (28:27):
He's been chipped more than anybody in football. I mean,
good offenses don't let that guy beat you. But to
do that, they have to give up a lot of
what they're capable of. You don't just drop back to
hopefully we'll block them this time and our quarterback won't
get killed. They didn't have to worry about that last night.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
I did feel like when Rogers had like more than
two and a half seconds, I was like, this is
a completion. He was so on that pass that he
had the feeling where he put it inside a shoe
box over the middle linebackers. I mean, just like this guy.
He still got it in a million ways.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
The throat of Friarmuth. Uh Oh, he was incomplete.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
I'm not talking about the scene ball, but now I
thought the one was incomplete at the end of the
second quarter on the DPI, that was a perfect back
shoulder fire mouth doesn't get tackled, it's a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh I don't know. I didn't see that enough to know.
It looked like he just threw it for the DPI.
I didn't even think he had a shot there.
Speaker 14 (29:25):
Couldn't couldn't have placed it couldn't have walked down there
and placed it in a better spot. The guys really
good still and smart people knew that well he was
burning up time out the people that actually watched them
play and talked to him and investigated it instead of just.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Oh, he wanted to go with the Judtgs. Why would
they want this clown?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Well, Mike, there were plenty of NFL teams who didn't
want them, and the Steelers were one of them.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
He was way down on their list. I think Minnesota
would have been better if they signed him. Here's what
I hated.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
An entire week of speculation of where Aaron Rodgers will
play next year and what Mike Tomlin It's gonna do
next year. That whole week leading up to last night
was driving me crazy. I was talking to a neighbor
of mine about it and I just kind of lost it.
Steam started flying out of my ears. I'm like, Wow,
there's a game, a game, have a game. The playoffs
(30:14):
are still we could have a home.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Playoff game if we beat the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And people are talking about where Aaron Rodgers is gonna
play next year?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Can everyone get your head straight? You should probably take
tomorrow off then yeah, because.
Speaker 14 (30:28):
Well, you talk about a certain sportscast, you know it's
gonna bang that Trump pretty guard tomorrow, you son.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Of all right, when we come back, we're gonna do
top plays of the game.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
We got Jerry du Lac joining us.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Rob King with a power hour of stealer talk that
I can't wait for coming up at nine o'clock, and
Abby you'll have your news at the top of the hour.
Speaker 12 (30:45):
The Critics' Choice Awards were also last night. We're gonna
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Show some tips on how to try to make them stick.
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Speaker 5 (32:35):
It's your radio, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. One oh
two point five dv E time for the top five
plays in the game. This was not easy, Mike. This
was not easy to figure out because there were so
many huge plays in this game. You could have done
top five plays in the fourth.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Quarter, could have done top thirty five or forty game
along with Abbey.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Isn't Mike pursuita Jeff Conckle hanging out with us this
morning here as well? Let's start at number five, third quarter,
Steelers desperately needing to get a touchdown down ten to three.
Adam Feeling, who is working his ass off out there.
I will say that you can see the guys really working,
but he hasn't been able to get the separation necessary.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
To get anything done until Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
And this seemed to be the ball that turned Aaron
Rodgers on clutch.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
For the second half.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Twenty eight yards down the scene after he gets separation
there and this will take it down into the red
zone for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Back to pass looking throwing up the right seed.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Beautifully thrown ball and what a catch by Feeling tight
coverage by Hupehrey. I mean that was a dark a
perfect crowd out of the eleven yard line.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
Coincidentally, three plays after College and left the game.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Hey, we didn't have DK. That equaled it out. As
far as I was concerned, Steelers get it down to
the go line and after it previously had not worked,
a steel City shove, the brotherly shove with Cam pushing Connor.
I know that that one's already been used with the Philadelphia,
but it seemed a little more apt.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
They are brothers, They're actual brothers. Connor with the one
yard touchdown plunge.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Your city chef once again snapped a Hayward hun.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Her Hayward second rushing touched out of the season caps
off a beautiful opening drive here for the Steelers, exactly
what they needed to do after blowing that drive to
end the first half.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
If you didn't come out and score a touchdown there,
you were really screwing up a potential of grabbing some
momentum and taking advantage of a situation. Had they scored
that touchdown and tied the game going into the half
and then came out out and went up seventeen ten,
I thought, well, that's a foot on the neck. They're
not getting up from that, but all right, next best
(35:06):
thing you tie it up. You get some mojo and
that gets the defense playing even hungrier and TJ.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Watt always alert on where the ball is.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Cam Hayward, who had a monster monster game along with
high Smith knocks the ball down a batted ball, and
what what does that mean for TJ.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Jackson back to pass bro Hittes patted down and picked off.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Picked off by TJ.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Watt, patted down by high Smith. And what somehow got
on in aflection at this place is coming bucks.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
And now you're winding down the third quarter thinking we
might take it in again here and we could go
up by a touchdown seventeen to ten and.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Headed into the fourth quarter with a seven point lead
with they stall and end up getting a Fueld goal there.
But that's not the lead. I think that ball Hayward
deflected it.
Speaker 14 (35:55):
I think that hit a Ravens offensive lineman and Jackson
before it got the watch.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
It ping ponged around like yeah, like eight guys. And
by the way, a ninth career interception for TJ. Watt.
Speaker 14 (36:05):
He has one hundred plus sacks and nine plus picks
in his career. The list of guys who have also
done that in NFL history Julius Peppers and Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Wow, that's the list now it includes TJ. Watt.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Your number two play of the game, after Lamar Jackson
connects for sixty four yards with z A Flowers two
twenty left in the game and the Ravens are winning
twenty four to twenty. Aaron Rodgers methodically surgically leads the
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Steelers down the field and what with turned out to
be too much time left on the clock fifty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He sees Calvin.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Austen, leaves the defender in the dust and hits him
for a twenty six yard touchdown to put the Steelers
up twenty six twenty four.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Gets a snap four man rush coming Rogers back lofting lep.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Has a man wide open touchdown, pitchbox Steelers what tick
five second drimating.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
And now Boswell's on to kick the extra point and
put the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Up by front.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Don't now the official scorer sheet says that was Block
says block, okay, I don't know. Boswell had not been
hitting the ball well. Somehow managed to get a couple
of field goals through the uprights last night. But you
can tell something's a little off with pause right now,
something in the We talked about this on the pregame show.
There's something amiss with the snaphold kick process. I don't
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know if it's all Boz or if it's the snaps
or the holes. He's missed a kick in three consecutive games,
which for him is unheard of, and that was this
first missed extra point of the season. So now the
Ravens have a chance to take the ball down the field,
getting field goal range and win, not tie the game.
Speaker 18 (37:57):
With Tyler Loop, rookie kicker who has Mike Turco pointed out,
was interviewed by the Ravens front office to make sure
he had the right stuff turned.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Out again, the wide right stuff. And so, what is
our top play of the game.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
No, it's not Tyler Loops missed forty four yard field
goal attempt.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
It's father Maximilian Maxwell.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Blessing the end zone where Loop would shake that kick
prior to the game. This is your play.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Of the game.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
This is a priest was spreading holy water in that
end zone. The Catholic community of Pittsburgh is very strong
and its size to the Steelers are everywhere, and that
was shown on local news. Arker got it and down
at that end zone. Tyler Loop missus the extricate point
in a field goal, I should say, and allows uh yeah,
(38:58):
allows the Steelers to add here's.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
A snap, here's the hole. Here's the food by loop
and that kick is.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Right and you're Pittsburgh Steelers are Ship North champions.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
I love that you can hear Max Stark's high fiving
everybody around it.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You just hear meat just sitting.
Speaker 17 (39:24):
Oh, it is the greatest this morning.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
The Pittsburgh Steelers are your AMC.
Speaker 11 (39:35):
WEFT champs, the great football team.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
This isn't the good one, Pittsburgh Steelers. That guy doesn't
have a dumb voice. We need the guy with the double.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Steelers.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We get it.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Boswell's point attempt is no good.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It drifts wide right, and now a field goal. We'll
win it for the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Oh my goodness, first extra point miss of this season
for Chris Boswell.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Max Starks, Oh my goodness, next to Rob King and
his goodness, gracious.
Speaker 6 (00:37):
Golly mine.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
I didn't even look up to see that extra point.
I was still celebrating the Calvin Austin touchdown, the twenty
six yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers when bos missed
that extra point.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Boss had not been hitting the ball well.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
They talked about the fact that he had a brutal
pregame and wasn't hitting those long kicks the way we're
accustomed to. He still muscles through a fifty seven yarder
early in the game. He think all right, But in
the back of my mind, I was like, I don't
like the way any of these kicks are looking. He's
just not hitting the ball well. It says it got blocked.
(01:13):
I still haven't seen that. You know, the official score
sheet says that that was a blocked extra point that
almostanding all of a sudden. The Steelers are now only
two points up on the Ravens and you think, okay,
fifty five seconds, we just can't let them get across midfield.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And then this was the ensuing kickoffs.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's Boswell with a boot, come down to Mitchell at
the five yard line, right in the middle of the field,
going to angle toward the right, and gets to the
twenty five, crosses the thirty to thirty five to forty
and it's Boswell who chases him out of bounds, but
all the way out to the forty seven yard line.
Oh that is a big, big return, a forty two yarder.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Then I started to turn it off, the lights just
that all right, time to go to bed.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
I know you want to start disengaging your emotions from that.
At that point you say, don't hurt me too much.
I'm gonna build my walls back up.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yeah, because you know, if he makes the extra point
and they kick a field will to tie. Even then
I'm thinking, all right, well, let's just hey, you're tying
tie is good for the Steelers if they can survive
ot But also I didn't think they were stomping us.
After Cayle Hamilton got hurt, and I thought that Arthur
Smith had learned his lesson and started to rely on
running the ball to set up.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
The pass game. Well and Warren were both great last night.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
That first half, though Derrick Henry ran wild and then
in the second half non factor.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The Steelers defense rose up.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Cam Hayward played maybe the best game I've ever seen
him play and he's thirty six years old. He led
all interior defensive linemen this year in plays. He had
a remarkable year. And for all the people who got
upset with the way that he handled the contract situation
at the beginning of the year, I completely understand that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But to have given up on this guy.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
And people watching him thinking not thinking he had an
amazing year, It's just crazy how you can watch the
same game and take away something completely different. To me,
that guy was an absolute monster all year long, and
last night Cam Hayward had a game that they needed
him to have and at thirty six, I didn't expect it.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Collinsworth also kind of hipped me to something that I
didn't really know when he was talking about how Cam
has to cover. He's a two gap lineman, which means
like it doesn't matter which way the running back goes.
He's responsible for both of them, like he has to
have his arms out just to collect whoever comes through there.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And that gave me a new appreciation when he's getting
double teams less and right.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
And he was destructive and disruptive, and it allowed them
to do some things defensively.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
They took some chances.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That first touchdown passed from Lamar to a wide open
devontees Walker for the thirty eight yarder on and was
that fourth down?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I believe it was fourth down.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
They scored a couple of fourth Little Banker had a
couple of big fourth downs last conversions last night. The
defense held up except for plays in which they were
an absolute mess. Why is nobody unsaved Flowers for a
sixty four yard touchdown reception?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Was he even targeted before that?
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Though?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I don't even know if he had one reception before that.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I think that fifty yard touchdown was his first target,
even sixty four yard or.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
He in sixty four?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
That to me though in weirdly, as I was looking
at it and there was two and change two twenty,
I think on the clock, I thought, right, this actually
actually might work out in our favor here, you know,
this might be one of those let him scores so
we can get the rail back A long backgrounds and
they were brilliant in controlling the clock last night.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The Steelers.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
This is a lesson that it took them way too
long to learn this year, but they learned it just
in time. Time of possession thirty four to thirty four,
eleven to twenty five to forty nine. They win last night.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That was big.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Also, the interception that TJ came up with, I would
have liked to have seen him come up with more
than a field goal in response. There there were a
couple of times where I thought they left some points
on the board. That was definitely one of them. But
that was the defense making big plays last night. You
needed them to. With no DK Metcalf, you anticipated, well,
they're not going to be able to do a lot offensively.
But then when Hamilton gets hurt. I'll tell you what
(05:19):
Aaron Rodgers was. He could have put up thirty seven
points on that On that team last night, they had
some opportunities, particularly the one at the end of the
first half that I still don't love the way they
approached that. It's one of those things when Tomlin's conservative,
I bitch there he is living in fears and then
when he goes for it, I think that was the
(05:39):
wrong play now and I still hate the play call
on that one, but I'm glad they had the mentality
they had with a win and in game against the
Ravens last night, you couldn't play it too safe, and
Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin head to head have had some
unbelievable matchups last night easily as entertaining as any Steelers
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Ravens game there has ever been, maybe not as much
as on the line as in the AFC Championship games.
Two thousand and nine is the one I'm thinking of,
But that game had it all. It was like if
Stefan was describing a football game, it would have been
that one.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Now do you find yourself as you get older, getting
a little more mellow about the rivalry Because when that
kicker missed the field goal, part of my heart broke
for him, Like I was like, dude, that guy is
about to like he looked.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Like he was gonna cry.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
He did, oh he was in years past, like I
would have been like Scott Farcas from a Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Story and be like, what are you going to cry for?
Cry for? Now?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I just feel kind of like, oh, that's his mom's
probably dying at home right now.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, well, empathy is in short supply these days, but
when it comes to sports, I always have it in
particular for you know, goalies kick the guy who guys
who get left out, you know, on their own in
a team sport. When I saw Harbaugh walking him up
the ramp with his arm around him and the kid
had his the gator pulled up over his nose, I mean,
(07:15):
I just I couldn't help but feel like, oh God,
that poor well they like.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
They used to because the Bills Stadium. He's twenty two
years old, I know what I mean. That's the I mean,
he's a rookie. Like that's I guess. You know, this
is a fork in the road, Like you either crumble
at this one and say like forget this, this is
game isn't familiar, or you rally back.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But like, I don't know, I.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Always felt real bad because that dude who I forget
what his name is. Who's the kicker who missed all
the field goals for Buffalo Scott Norwood?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Are you think maybe Norwood?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
But they had a big montage of all the Bills
you know, memories because the bill Stadium is getting demolished,
their building a new one.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And that guy still.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
What is that thirty five years later, whenever it gets
brought up, he starts almost crying that he let the
team down, he let the off of him a field.
He just that one, that one, it's just rough. That
pressure is rough on that one. You don't have anybody
to blame but.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Your selling, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
And he held out for more money going into that year.
They paid him a lot of money. And the reason
I know that is because they signed a free agent
kicker named Charlie Bauman to go up. That was my
brother's first pro experience, was kicking instead of Scott Norwood.
But anyways, fast forward to the last night's Steelers Ravens game.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
When it came to offensive game plan, I didn't love
what they had going on. It just looked to me
like they were throwing together whatever they could instead of
relying on the two short things, which to me were
Jalen Warren and Gainwell, and my god, both of them
are gamers and in terms of yards after contact, those
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guys were warn allan. I will say I think it
was the first quarter Kenneth Gainwell had like eight of
our nine targets, and I was like, okay, getting a
little one dimensional here. It was check down I think
like six six plays in a row, and I was
getting a little frustrated with that. Well, you know what, though,
they were turning him into into some chunks and they
were getting themselves in position to convert, and they came
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up with some huge conversions in the second half. An
absolute shocker last night that that game ended the way
it did. I cannot believe Boswell misses an extra point
and then Loop misses the forty four yarder. The way
that it got set up from Mike Tarico to we
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played it last hour. Cherico, he gave us an announcer
Jinks for the aegis. We should everybody should send him
an email of thanks.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Today is tellinglikely how special that play was to set
up this moment for.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
The rookie out of Arizona.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
The Ravens, of course, had justin Tucker for so long,
the most accurate kicker in the history of the league.
Rogers came believe what he has just witnessed, what might
be the end for him. But they went around the
country and spoke to a lot of the kickers who
were coming out, and they decided Tyler Loop was made
of the right stuff for moments like.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
This man, and I'm staring at the TV, staring up
all the lights are off.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'm gonna click it off and go to bed.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I'm just pissed beyond belief and I couldn't believe this
is how the football gones drew it up.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
And then.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
He now has a chance to win the division for
the Ravens the final play of the regular season for
the final spot in the playoffs, Tyler Loop from.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Forty four.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Could hold, Oh my grid, I'm the feelers.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm a chucking to the North. Steels are the champions
in the North.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Listening to that crowd, and by the way, kudos to
the sixty five who showed up last night at Agrosshire
Stadium in what was a tough ask of a Steeler fan.
It really was coming off a long holiday after you
lose to the Browns and you were probably not feeling great.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Here's what I think happened. Why was that crowd so
great last night?
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Because tickets to a Steelers Ravens game were low demands
if you look at ticket prices before that, going for
club seats for one hundred and change. Whoa wow, you
could get in for fifty dollars last night and sit
in a lower five hundred section.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
When the demand went down all of the sudden, a
lot of diehards who never get to go to the game,
who never get their renegade. By the way, I have
a renegade, take care for you in a second. Those
people made it him and it reminded me of the
Igloo versus Peace Paints Arena when the Igloo had you know,
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baked in season ticket holders who were regular Joes and
turned that place into every time it was important. It
was a just it was like a pressure cooker in there,
insanely loud.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Then PPG got a little corporate as.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Soon as wy Goo Beef came into Yeah, and that's
that was it for the fun people.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
All of a sudden, the ticket prices drop down to
a very reasonable amount, and you know, Joe and Jane
lunch pale Steeler fans come in with hoy ploy.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And muscle their way in there, and they were huge.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
T J.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Watt talked about it. Tomlin talked about it.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
The Steeler Nation performance last night, which could have gone
the other way.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Let's be yeah, let's be honest.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
I have to say, I think you're getting it's a
little revisionist history because it was teeter and pretty hard
in the first quarter. Okay, if that, if that tips
over the other way, they that hoy poloy that you
so Uh they might have been taking seats.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Home with them at that Okay, but it didn't and
they came through. All right.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Uh Now, Renegade colossal fail, but it did have a
big response from the fans. Here's what I think we
need to do because it breaks my heart when I
see people say, like, get rid of Renegade. The answer
is not to get rid of Renegade very simply play
Renegade in the first half. Stop putting so much of
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an onus on whether Renegade inspires a big needed defensive stand,
because now I think it's getting into the players heads.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, Like we gotta do something here.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
What if put it in the first half, everyone gets
their towel Waven experience and.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's hey, it just doesn't have as much weight to it.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I think maybe it shouldn't be mandated that it must
be played every game like the Bills game. They should
have just pocket vetoed that someone said play renegade, and
whoever's in charge said, we're gonna let this. This is
not a Renegade game today, and like, maybe you know,
only do it when you really need to. I've been
the games where they've played it twice.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yes, me too.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
I want to jump up your idea. Though, what if
you did it going into the second half. It was
a way to get people back in their seats.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Oh, it was like like these hurry up and get
out of the bathroom.
Speaker 12 (14:30):
Like everybody freaks out and they want to be part
of Renegade and everything, and then like you're hyping up
getting back.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
To the game regardless of what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I like this.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Okay, that's a good idea, Abby, I love it, although
you know it would take away the defense.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know, if we're getting the ball, that's the only thing.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Well, we're cutting it down either way. We're ding with
your idea.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, it's getting trimmed, that's right. Toe.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
But if that takes away some of the significance of it,
some of the onus and it gives everybody the experience
because the terrible towel research GINTS is in big part
due to the rennegade thing that that has helped sustain
and revive the Terrible Towel prominence at these games. And
keep in mind, the fiftieth anniversary of the Terrible Towel
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was this past December, and the team put out a
documentary on that. If you haven't seen it, it's great
and I was honored to be a small part of it.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Oh you were in it.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Yeah, they used my song, the Terrible Towel Song, because
it kind of highlighted those two thousands when when you know,
TJ houshman Zada was Rubbins, you know, and the Titans
buried the flag and it bit them both in the ass.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Immediately got to.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Tell you, there's an uber commercial that I don't really appreciate. It's,
you know, Bradley Cooper's there talking about all the teams
selling food, and he goes and you got the Steelers with.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Their little yellow napkins.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
And I feel like that kind of went out under
the radar for everybody calling it a little yellow napkin.
I don't know an Eagles fan calling it a little
yellow napkin.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
They're going to get theirs.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Yeah, he's got a bad bluffer upper bleff.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So you know, yeah, that's the plastic surgery.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yeah bluff, Yeah we got them.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah. Okay. So here's the good news.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Steelers now hosting the wild Card game against the Texans
on Monday night at home. Once again, these will not
be cheap tickets. This will not be an easy game.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
And on four PM game on Monday, let's go love that.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Unfortunately, it's an eight to fifteen kickoff here Monday night.
It will yeah, it'll, it'll finish out the wild Card weekend.
I wish you wouldn't even have a Monday night game,
but because the Texans are usually the first game on Saturday,
you know, in that crappy spot, A lot of teams
hate having that. I would love that at an Akroscher
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Stadium game on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Just an absolute blast.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Uh, lots to clean up between last week and this
week and Abby, we obviously got derailed here because of
last night's Steelers victory and didn't get to as many
things as we want to. But touch a couple of
bass you have to before we get to the break.
Speaker 12 (17:02):
I was gonna tell people that they could recycle their
Christmas trees. I don't know how pressing that is this morning.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
But Christmas present. I felt like Jimmy Stewart. I wish
I was never a Feeler fan. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (17:15):
Yeah, this is only for people who have live Christmas trees.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Okay, but basically they won't just.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Dispense with your fake one. Well, I mean most fake
ones are just plastic and aluminum. You can probably recycle
those two.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
I mean, I I've always had a fake one. I
don't I don't mess with real trees anyway, because I
don't have the band with w.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, you have cats, your cats would be in your trees.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I have to.
Speaker 11 (17:39):
I have a hook that stays in the wall year
round that I have to like cover up with another
like a tree point. Yeah, and I hook it into
the wall just so in the cats if they do
climb up the thing, they don't knock the whole tree.
But Pittsburgh residents who do need to recycle their live
Christmas trees have several drop off locations that are going
to be available through January twenty six. There's eleven drop
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off sites for live Christmas trees. These are the public
works locations in Perry, North, East End, Hazelwood, and West End,
as well as additional locations in Highland Park, Squirrel Hill
on Southside. You go to Pittsburgh, PA dot gov for
all of the locations. Dropped off trees will later become
pine malts that's going to be available for the public
for free in the spring. Just make sure all the ornaments,
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the netting, the tinsel, then the lights are all removed
before you drop off your tree. And apparently other options
do include curb side pickups where the Girl Scout Troops
Initiative takes care of this. There's a small fee and
then they come and they actually come get you.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
If you're like most people in the outskirts of Pittsburgh,
that thing's going on the burn pile. And let me
tell you, throwing a Christmas tree on the burn pile,
that's a that's a delicacy. That is a delicacy. So
you only get to do that once a year. It's
like dropping napalm on something like I mean, you realize
how unbelievably explosive Christmas trees apparently are cracking.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Miss some tinsel.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
I will save the critics choice of Wars for maybe
next hour, because we can go ahead and jump in
there because you mentioned a couple of shows that you
were talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
That now I'm interested in. Oh yeah, Mike, we were.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Telling about my Christmas vacation this year was a lot
of My mom got sick, like so many people did,
and it knocked out our Christmas.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And I made up for it by cocooning and watching
what do they call it bed rotting?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I wasn't in bed. I was couch rotting. Yeah, no
it's not. I just couldn't. Yeah, no, yeah, it's couch rotting,
couch trotty. I love that. I'm jealous.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I had some workouts in there and everything. I'm just saying,
like the amount of nothing that I did was considerable.
He just like, yell to your girlfriend, turn me roll.
I have a Rotisseri chicken when we come back. Mike
pursuita joins US Steelers twenty six Ravens twenty four.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Was that it for Lamar and Harbaugh together.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Lamar last night posted on social media a still of
scronic leverage being on the missed field goal, thinking that
should have been called. I guess we'll talk to Geene
Stairtor about that tomorrow. The refs they gave it and
they taketh away.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Dude.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
I saw with Lamar, I saw a split screenshot of
him like watching the field goal, and for the first
seven eighths of that play he thought it was in.
He was walking on the field, arms up, and then
he immediately just slowly put his arms down and walked
and found T. J. Watt and shook his hand and
went back to the locker room. Another guy, I kinda
he just can't quite get the uh the Steelers bug
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off his back.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I mean, dude, the one touchdown to Zay Flowers where
Benton and high Smith have him sacked and he steps
forward and throws the bomb.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It just seemed like, is this preordained? Is there?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Is this just something?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
He looks phenomenal, like, he looks unbeatable, gets.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
A step, wants to throw it back to past pressure, combing, hit,
spinning down of his sack, waiting, rowing, lobbing deep down
field and caught for a touchdown by say Flowers. Oh,
tremendous play by Lamar Jackson and from fifty yards out.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Just like that, the Ravens have retaken the league.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
He does stuff like that, But I'll tell you right now,
Ravens fans are gonna look at that last drive and
they're gonna ask some questions about some of the things
that some of the opportunities that he did not say
he had d Hop just sitting there, but he really
wanted him to go for a big g. D Hop
could have run all the way down to like the
twenty and there would have been a lot of time
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left there.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I don't know getting him in position with fifty seconds left,
forty yard.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Field, fourth and seven and that ball to Isaiah likely
step back, the pass pressure coming steps up, floats down
field and it is caught a leaping grab by Isaiah
likely at the twenty two yard line, and the Ravens
have called time out.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I mend his catch a twenty eight yard pickup only
twelve seconds for Maine here at Akroshur Stadium.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
No herbig on the field on that one, No kem Hayward.
My dog was barking NonStop because I was screaming.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Please, you're upset. I'm upset. My dog was so upset.
That's really what this is. My poor dog.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
He just when does Steeler games go on, he is
on high alert. He's very worried. Thank god, I put
that little barrel full.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Of rum under you. I can come pull you out.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Mike's got a full report on last night Steelers win
and it's onto Monday night football wild Card weekend. We'll
end with Steelers Texans and a home playoff game from
Mike Tomlins Pittsburgh steel.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
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Speaker 1 (22:50):
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Speaker 13 (22:54):
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Speaker 1 (23:16):
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Speaker 5 (23:24):
It's got to be a decent day, a mix of
sun and cloud's warmer high close to fifty.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, still, just.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Try to come down from last night's Steelers' big world. Uh.
The thing that we haven't even really talked too much about.
We joked about a last sports cast, the fact they
had a priest go out and put holy water in
the end zone. That Tyler Loop ended up shaking the
game away on will go down as one of the
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most retold Steeler focal historic story right there. That will
be something we talk about forever.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
I think we've proven one thing is that Tyler Loop
is a Satanist clearly.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Why else? Well maybe, well, who.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Knows, Maybe that you know a lot of people are
like he was administering last rites.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Tomlin's done. I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Maybe they should sell like those holy water, like Steeler holywater,
you know, flickers.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, if you do that, then.
Speaker 14 (24:25):
You're advocating fans throw stuff on each other.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's already going on.
Speaker 13 (24:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, that actually might be blasphemic.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I don't know, but somehow it sure worked for the
Steelers last night, twenty six, twenty four MIC.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Sports is Up, brought to you by Bridgeville.
Speaker 14 (24:41):
Appliance to heroes were many in number last night at
Actress Stadium on both sides of Steelers. Ravens quarterback Aaron
Rodgers was among them, if not the most heroic of all.
Emerging from that had to have it win or else
Steeler's victory over Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And yes, Mike Tomlins saw that coming.
Speaker 15 (25:01):
I've ad married him from Afar for a long time.
It's good to do it with him. But again, as
I've said multiple times here in recent weeks, this was
the vision in the spring when we pursued him. That's
why you do business with a forty one, forty two
year old guy. Been there, done that guy with a
resume like his, He's not only capable man, he thrives
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in it.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
And I think he put that on display tonight.
Speaker 14 (25:29):
Yeah, it wasn't wrong about Rogers still having it at
forty two years of age. And Tomlin also wasn't wrong
about the way Rogers responded when the Steelers got the
ball down by four with at that juncture two minutes
and twenty seconds left in their season.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Yeah, I mean, that's what you want.
Speaker 16 (25:49):
You want the ball in your hands with two twenty
left and you need a touchdown.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
That's exactly what you want.
Speaker 16 (25:58):
And I was calm all day long, you know, with
the gravity of the game and knowing what was in
store for us. But I was confident that I was
going to play a good game and that I could
kind of be the magnetic force out there to keep
guys confident and calm, And even that two minute I
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was like, yeah, yeah, we're good. We're gonna go down
score and don't worry about a voice. But I think
that's that's part of it, being the old guy. I
have a lot of gray in your beard. Is they
expect things from you, and it's nice to be able
to deliver in moments like that.
Speaker 14 (26:33):
Yeah, that's more legendary stuff. Don't worry about it, boys,
We're gonna get out.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And score sixty five yards, six plays, no timeouts, eighty
five seconds on that final touchdown drive.
Speaker 14 (26:43):
Calvin Austin, who caught what turned out to be the
game winning touchdown pass from Rogers, also fitted himself for
a cape, but as it turns out, it took a
little convincing.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Calvin's the sweetest guy.
Speaker 16 (26:56):
I mean he is just ever since the Malibu tripping
the off season, just I have such a love and
appreciation for cal and his disposition, and multiple times in
the huddle I'm asking him on various plays, what do
you want on the backside? What do you want on
the backside? And he wouldn't give me a straight answer.
And on this on this particular huddle conversation, I said,
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what do you want? Cal He said, and somebody to
my right. I don't know if it was McCormick or
or Pat said something about like man, just go cook
him or something.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
So I said, all right, call you run a hitch
and go back there.
Speaker 16 (27:33):
And I was, you know, I was really thinking the
front side three man combination that we worked and had
success with most of the night was kind of my
first thought. But I just peeked back to the left
and saw number three slip and you know, to give me,
give me touchdown. But I'm proud of proud of Calvin,
and the line really gave me a lot of time
all day.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
They played really well.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
You know, everybody's a lot of reaction of amazement. Well,
how could they be so bad against cleeved and so
good against Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Baltimore doesn't have Miles Garrett.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
Nobody has Miles Garrett except Cleveland Steelers have Teacher wat
There are other good edge rushers, but Baltimore has no
pass rush. It changes the game when you can block
with five and when you have some time to let
stuff develop. Those edge rushers, that's why they get so
much money, is because even when they don't get sacks,
they impact the game.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
People think TJ. Watts had a terrible year.
Speaker 14 (28:27):
He's been chipped more than anybody in football. I mean,
good offenses don't let that guy beat you. But to
do that, they have to give up a lot of
what they're capable of. You don't just drop back to
hopefully we'll block them this time and our quarterback won't
get killed. They didn't have to worry about that last night.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
I did feel like when Rogers had like more than
two and a half seconds, I was like, this is
a completion. He was so on that pass that he
had the feeling where he put it inside a shoe
box over the middle linebackers. I mean, just like this guy.
He still got it in a million ways.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
The throat of Friarmuth. Uh Oh, he was incomplete.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
I'm not talking about the scene ball, but now I
thought the one was incomplete at the end of the
second quarter on the DPI, that was a perfect back
shoulder fire mouth doesn't get tackled, it's a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh I don't know. I didn't see that enough to know.
It looked like he just threw it for the DPI.
I didn't even think he had a shot there.
Speaker 14 (29:25):
Couldn't couldn't have placed it couldn't have walked down there
and placed it in a better spot. The guys really
good still and smart people knew that well he was
burning up time out the people that actually watched them
play and talked to him and investigated it instead of just.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Oh, he wanted to go with the Judtgs. Why would
they want this clown?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Well, Mike, there were plenty of NFL teams who didn't
want them, and the Steelers were one of them.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
He was way down on their list. I think Minnesota
would have been better if they signed him. Here's what
I hated.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
An entire week of speculation of where Aaron Rodgers will
play next year and what Mike Tomlin It's gonna do
next year. That whole week leading up to last night
was driving me crazy. I was talking to a neighbor
of mine about it and I just kind of lost it.
Steam started flying out of my ears. I'm like, Wow,
there's a game, a game, have a game. The playoffs
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are still we could have a home.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Playoff game if we beat the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And people are talking about where Aaron Rodgers is gonna
play next year?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Can everyone get your head straight? You should probably take
tomorrow off then yeah, because.
Speaker 14 (30:28):
Well, you talk about a certain sportscast, you know it's
gonna bang that Trump pretty guard tomorrow, you son.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Of all right, when we come back, we're gonna do
top plays of the game.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
We got Jerry du Lac joining us.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Rob King with a power hour of stealer talk that
I can't wait for coming up at nine o'clock, and
Abby you'll have your news at the top of the hour.
Speaker 12 (30:45):
The Critics' Choice Awards were also last night. We're gonna
recap on those, and we're bad at New Year's Resolutions.
Show some tips on how to try to make them stick.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Here we go stealers.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
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million from Saint Vincent College.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Here we bless the end zone. Make them shank kicks
are if you play something for me? The answer is
always yes. When you build the menu, you know what
that would make my day so much better?
Speaker 13 (31:19):
The all request the electric lunch weekdays at noon on dve.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yo.
Speaker 17 (31:25):
It's smart Madden. Let's get something straight. I'm not a
disciplined guy. I'm not a meal prep guy. I am
definitely not a New Year, New Me type of guy
that is exactly why you should pay attention to this,
because if I can lose weight and stick with it,
then Awaken one eighty is a no brainer for you.
I didn't fall in love with Kale, I didn't start
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It's your radio, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers. One oh
two point five dv E time for the top five
plays in the game. This was not easy, Mike. This
was not easy to figure out because there were so
many huge plays in this game. You could have done
top five plays in the fourth.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Quarter, could have done top thirty five or forty game
along with Abbey.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Isn't Mike pursuita Jeff Conckle hanging out with us this
morning here as well? Let's start at number five, third quarter,
Steelers desperately needing to get a touchdown down ten to three.
Adam Feeling, who is working his ass off out there.
I will say that you can see the guys really working,
but he hasn't been able to get the separation necessary.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
To get anything done until Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
And this seemed to be the ball that turned Aaron
Rodgers on clutch.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
For the second half.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Twenty eight yards down the scene after he gets separation
there and this will take it down into the red
zone for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Back to pass looking throwing up the right seed.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Beautifully thrown ball and what a catch by Feeling tight
coverage by Hupehrey. I mean that was a dark a
perfect crowd out of the eleven yard line.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
Coincidentally, three plays after College and left the game.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
Hey, we didn't have DK. That equaled it out. As
far as I was concerned, Steelers get it down to
the go line and after it previously had not worked,
a steel City shove, the brotherly shove with Cam pushing Connor.
I know that that one's already been used with the Philadelphia,
but it seemed a little more apt.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
They are brothers, They're actual brothers. Connor with the one
yard touchdown plunge.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Your city chef once again snapped a Hayward hun.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Her Hayward second rushing touched out of the season caps
off a beautiful opening drive here for the Steelers, exactly
what they needed to do after blowing that drive to
end the first half.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
If you didn't come out and score a touchdown there,
you were really screwing up a potential of grabbing some
momentum and taking advantage of a situation. Had they scored
that touchdown and tied the game going into the half
and then came out out and went up seventeen ten,
I thought, well, that's a foot on the neck. They're
not getting up from that, but all right, next best
(35:06):
thing you tie it up. You get some mojo and
that gets the defense playing even hungrier and TJ.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Watt always alert on where the ball is.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Cam Hayward, who had a monster monster game along with
high Smith knocks the ball down a batted ball, and
what what does that mean for TJ.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Jackson back to pass bro Hittes patted down and picked off.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Picked off by TJ.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Watt, patted down by high Smith. And what somehow got
on in aflection at this place is coming bucks.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
And now you're winding down the third quarter thinking we
might take it in again here and we could go
up by a touchdown seventeen to ten and.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Headed into the fourth quarter with a seven point lead
with they stall and end up getting a Fueld goal there.
But that's not the lead. I think that ball Hayward
deflected it.
Speaker 14 (35:55):
I think that hit a Ravens offensive lineman and Jackson
before it got the watch.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
It ping ponged around like yeah, like eight guys. And
by the way, a ninth career interception for TJ. Watt.
Speaker 14 (36:05):
He has one hundred plus sacks and nine plus picks
in his career. The list of guys who have also
done that in NFL history Julius Peppers and Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Wow, that's the list now it includes TJ. Watt.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Your number two play of the game, after Lamar Jackson
connects for sixty four yards with z A Flowers two
twenty left in the game and the Ravens are winning
twenty four to twenty. Aaron Rodgers methodically surgically leads the
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Steelers down the field and what with turned out to
be too much time left on the clock fifty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He sees Calvin.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Austen, leaves the defender in the dust and hits him
for a twenty six yard touchdown to put the Steelers
up twenty six twenty four.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Gets a snap four man rush coming Rogers back lofting lep.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Has a man wide open touchdown, pitchbox Steelers what tick
five second drimating.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
And now Boswell's on to kick the extra point and
put the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Up by front.
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Don't now the official scorer sheet says that was Block
says block, okay, I don't know. Boswell had not been
hitting the ball well. Somehow managed to get a couple
of field goals through the uprights last night. But you
can tell something's a little off with pause right now,
something in the We talked about this on the pregame show.
There's something amiss with the snaphold kick process. I don't
(37:39):
know if it's all Boz or if it's the snaps
or the holes. He's missed a kick in three consecutive games,
which for him is unheard of, and that was this
first missed extra point of the season. So now the
Ravens have a chance to take the ball down the field,
getting field goal range and win, not tie the game.
Speaker 18 (37:57):
With Tyler Loop, rookie kicker who has Mike Turco pointed out,
was interviewed by the Ravens front office to make sure
he had the right stuff turned.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Out again, the wide right stuff. And so, what is
our top play of the game.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
No, it's not Tyler Loops missed forty four yard field
goal attempt.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
It's father Maximilian Maxwell.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Blessing the end zone where Loop would shake that kick
prior to the game. This is your play.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Of the game.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
This is a priest was spreading holy water in that
end zone. The Catholic community of Pittsburgh is very strong
and its size to the Steelers are everywhere, and that
was shown on local news. Arker got it and down
at that end zone. Tyler Loop missus the extricate point
in a field goal, I should say, and allows uh yeah,
(38:58):
allows the Steelers to add here's.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
A snap, here's the hole. Here's the food by loop
and that kick is.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Right and you're Pittsburgh Steelers are Ship North champions.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
I love that you can hear Max Stark's high fiving
everybody around it.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You just hear meat just sitting.
Speaker 17 (39:24):
Oh, it is the greatest this morning.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
The Pittsburgh Steelers are your AMC.
Speaker 11 (39:35):
WEFT champs, the great football team.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
This isn't the good one, Pittsburgh Steelers. That guy doesn't
have a dumb voice. We need the guy with the double.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Steelers.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
We get it.
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