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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's the step, here's the hole, here's the boot by
Loop and that kick is.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Loop Miston and you're Pittsburgh Steelers AREFC North champions?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (00:28):
Here in the call even better.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Tyler loop wide on a forty four yard field goal,
wide right, and the Pittsburgh Steelers escape from Acrosher Stadium
with a win over the Ravens, and they are AFC
North champions, and they are headed to the postseason to
take on the Houston Texans in Monday Night Football next Monday,

(00:56):
eight point fifteen PM.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I don't even care. I don't even care that it's
another primetime game.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Didn't even upset me happy to be.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
In the postseason. That game had.

Speaker 6 (01:08):
Everything, including the stress and the need for dumbs.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I don't know if I can take it. It might
have been better for my health if they had lost,
and I could have just grieved. If I have to
go through that again next Monday Night, there's a good
chance I'm gonna stroke out or something.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I was watching the second half.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
I'm by myself, and I mean my teeth were gritting
the entire time.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
The Steelers were I couldn't figure them out.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
After the first series the defense settled down, I thought,
and really started playing well, except for these four ridiculous
plays that happened. I mean, even the blitz on that
first that sets up a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
That would just look too easy that I was like.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Okay, that was kind of a we didn't get their
situation and Jalen Ramsey just misplayed that, not like they
didn't have their bleep together. And as the game went on,
you know, Derrick Henry's just ripping off all these huge
runs over one hundred yards in the first half, and
I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
It still doesn't look bad.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
It still looks like we could be in this game,
going down the field at the end of the first
half with a chance to score and coming away empty
handed on a play call that a lot of people hate.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't know what that play looks like.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
If Friarmouth blocks his guy there and Kenneth Gainwell is
one on one with the entire left side of the
end zone to try to juke the guy, I mean,
I don't know. If I don't love his chances there,
maybe there was something better to write up there. I
don't know, Alas they get nothing there, and I'm thinking, boy,
if you don't go right down and score touchdown. Here,

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it's gonna be gonna be really rough on you. And
they do, and the Steelers did. They jam it right
down the field and the game was on. That second
half was insane. But the fourth quarter, my god.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
My god, lamar scripted.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes, Yeah, that was to end the NFL regular season.
They could not have asked for a better product. And
it almost made losing to the Browns worthwhile, But not really,
not really, because I had to spend an entire week
just like you people did. We lost to the Browns,
and instead of enjoying that week between Christmas and New

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Year's you spent the whole time thinking I'm gonna have
to stay up late on Sunday to have my heart broken.
And the just the anxiety and stress of that alone
was pissing me off against this team. But what they
did yesterday, in particular, I thought Cam Hayward just had
a game for the ages. And when I say the ages,

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I mean all the people who are as old as
he is, because he is thirty six years old and
there's no other ages his age playing like he is.
Uh and Connor Hayward for that matter. I mean, I
don't you know, I think he got caught in the
crossfire by a lot of Steelers fans this year who
were upset with the Cam Hayward contract situation and for

(04:23):
some reason lumped him.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Is as useless.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
He's been outstanding this year and just just come up
with some really big plays. I'm not sure I love
the brotherly shove from over a yard away.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, no, that's the brotherly whause.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
When it's not aush push, it's a.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well because you had no Darnell Washington, you had Cam
Hayward pushing little brother Connor. So that's why some people
were the brotherly shove and otherly things. They were calling
it something of that effect. Uh. Nonwithstanding, Look, I had
some issues with the play calling in big, big way,

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particularly in that first half.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I thought Arthur Smith was an absolute mess, a disaster.
But Aaron Rodgers, who I'm not sure if all.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Of those timeouts he burned were because of what was
going on in his helmet or if he was just
playing chess a little bit longer than he should have been.
It didn't end up burning him those timeouts, but boy,
that seemed like a scary scenario. That was just one
other factor that he had to contend with there in
terms of managing the stress of that second half. The
way they were dicing up the Ravens defense after Kyle

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Hamilton got hurt was just you knew they could score.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
So when they completely blew that coverage on.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
The last or second to last offensive series for the
Ravens where they had another one of those wide open
touchdowns to Zay Flowers, I thought this could actually help them.
Now the Steelers got the ball with two and a
half left, Like if the Ravens would have had a
long slog of a and then bang went in there,
that would have been brutal. So I thought, okay, this

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might work to our advantage in a weird way. And
if anything, Aaron Rodgers drove them down and scored too
quickly fifty five seconds left on the clock.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
And then the kickoff after Boz.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Misses the extra point, which when that happened, all of
our hearts sunk, and we thought.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh my god, this is how it's gonna end.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
The guy who's been unstoppable, mister reliable for us all
year long misses an extra point. Like we said, he's
just he was just hitting bad balls all day. Yeah,
I mean, it just did not look good coming off
of his foot. Yesterday. They were talking about how in
pregame he looked bad and he was missing all the

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long kicks. Somehow managed that long fifty four yarder through.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
That's what I was like, Wow, how to erase a
fifty four yard field goal?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
Oh yeah, miss an extra point? How to do it?
He had a twenty five yard field goal as well
as a fifty seven yardfield goal he actually hit, which
is amazing. So when that happens and Lamar's only got
to get them, you know, in the field goal range,
and they start off with a huge kickoff return, I
mean I just started packing things up, just like, oh,

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it's over.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
It's I'll just let this play out and I'll put
the turn off all the lights, and had the remote
control in my hand waiting to just turn it off
the second the kick went through the uprights. And then
the Steelers defense stiffened and it was crazy, and all
of a sudden it looked like they were going to
rise up and take the game away from Lamar.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
And then it's fourth and seven and I'm thinking to myself,
fourth and seven, I like these odds. The Steelers defense
who's been on fire the whole second half. But no
Nate Herbig on the field, no Cam Hayward on the field.
And that fourth is it why?

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I don't know. They had a chance to make a play.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
TJ almost stole the game right there, and somehow Lamar
Jackson threads the needle to Isaiah Likely and once again
Jalen Ramsey plays the ball terrible there and on fourth
and seven they convert in the field goal range, and

(08:26):
my god, all of our hearts dropped. Did they know?

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I mean, that was it for me?

Speaker 6 (08:31):
I'm like, okay, like you, I was time to put
the cheese away.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
This is it, this is back the past.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
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.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Called time out.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Tremendous catch, a twenty eight yard pickup only twelve seconds
to remain here at Akroshur Stadium.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Now, at this point I had to be thinking if
I'm in the crowd full of people there at Akroshuer Stadium,
which I was not, because it was a night game
and we have this gig.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
I did not go.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
I regretted that almost the entire way until that happened,
and I thought, oh, well, I'm glad I'm not there now,
you know, I gotta lean on some things here that'll
prop me up here emotionally. Oh at least I'm not
there freezing and have to figure out how to get
out of the parking lot and get home and blah
blah blah. And then one of the weirdest things happened.

(09:37):
Tyler Loop Baltimore kicker.

Speaker 8 (09:40):
Comes out instead of with twelve seconds left hand of timeout,
advancing the ball a little further, which with Derrick Henry
heck figure you could probably get him a little closer
there if you really wanted to.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Harbaugh decides forty two yards ought to be fine, takes you.
He backs him up two more yards forty four yards.
What could the problem be there? It's the hardest field
to kick on over forty yards in the league. They
bring out Tyler Loup for that field goal, and for

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those of us watching at home, Mike Turrico, who I'm
always hitting miss on. He was brilliant here and gifted
the Steelers fans a kicker jinx that we could not
have prayed for.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
With his words.

Speaker 9 (10:33):
Christ's telling likely how special that play was to set
up this moment for the rookie out of Arizona.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
The Ravens, of course, had justin Tucker.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
For so long, the most accurate kicker in the history
of the league. Rogers can't believe what he has just
witnessed 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 this.

Speaker 10 (11:04):
He now has a chance to win the division for
the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
He was made of the right stuff for moments like
this and now has a chance to win the division.

Speaker 10 (11:17):
The final play of the regular season for the final
spot in the playoffs, Tyler Luke from forty four, she could.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Hold I'm the Steelers Ibec to the north.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Oh my good. Ravens fans just absolutely plots right there.
I mean, they just their insides explode watching that. Tyler Loop,
a rookie, a kid who I look, I'm taking my
balls for him? Okay, I am. Did you see him

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after the game?

Speaker 5 (11:59):
I didn't want to look.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Harbaugh has his arm around him walking up the ramp.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh God, and he's.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Got loop, has his gator pulled up over his nose
all the way up to his eyes.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
I mean, look.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
There, but for the grace of God, that is the game.
That is why we watch. I get he's a professional.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh watching that was hard.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
But that might have been Harbaugh walking him right out
of the building.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'd like him here a little bit. I get the
hell out of here.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
You're gonna be kicking him in the button, you know,
lock him outside the locker room.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Maybe Harba's like, we're both going, buddy.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
They I think that might be the case there.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I mean, there was a lot of speculation about what
happens post game there. Does Mike Tomlin if he loses
that game move on to greener television pastures, Well, that
still might be in play. If that's the case. There
was a lot of thought about that. Tariko has been
banging that drum quite a bit. Mike Tomlin when he
talked with Tony Dongey didn't sound like a guy to
me he was ready to retire anytime soon. Any modicum

(13:01):
of success in the playoffs, I think that might change,
you know. As much as I was not a fan
of Aaron Rodgers coming in here this year, and I
still think it was there was lots of flaws to it,
and certainly he was their third choice. He ended up
being you know, the other one would have been Donald.
I mean Donald. You saw how amazing he was this weekend.

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Short of that, realistic acquisitions for the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't know that they do any better than they
did with Aaron Rodgers when it was all said and done.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Also, he changed his behavior for all those people going, oh,
I thought he was a little bad.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Look.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
He didn't do all the jackass things he had been doing.
He wasn't going on McAfee show every Tuesday during the
season stirring up a bunch of controversy and just thinking like, oh, well,
we can't have conversations now while being disingenuous about the
fact that like, when you say it, it has more
import and that's going to be the focus, and let's
make this about football. He did, and when he makes

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it about football, it's hard to not love Aaron Rodgers,
even at his advance stage.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
All the dumb things he did.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Last night, and I thought he did a couple of
dumb things, you know, missing John new Smith, his footwork
just looked really bad on that one. I mean, I
think that was in the I was that in the
third quarter when he missed him, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (14:12):
And.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Also running for the first down and then stopping, you know,
on third down there and backing them up. You know,
he could have at least got it to fourth and
short there they ended up. I think that's when they
got one of those field goals, and that might have
been Boswol's fifty seven yarder. Also the timeout situation, you know,
he was doing a lot of playing chicken out there,

(14:36):
a lot of chess games that he kind of forfeited
by giving up those timeouts. But I think the last
one was on his helmet. That being said, who had
more poise without dk Metcalf in the lineup and still
tried to figure out a way how to make MVS
useful because that guy is he's just a bag of potatoes.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well he's a talented bag of potatoes at times, but
mostly a bag of potatoes.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
But you get Metcalf back next week.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yes, and nobody more relieved than Boss and Metcalf about
the way that that game ended, because they would have
they would have been sharing the goat tag.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I think on that one.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
He figured out a way to get Adam Thielin involved
when he had to with it just a gorgeous pass.
Had a rough first half but really bounced back, and
Aaron Rodgers fourth quarter was masterful, absolutely masterful. The Steelers
are now hosting the Texans Monday night. Wild Card weekend

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culminates with the Akroscher Stadium crowd reconvening for another prime
time game. Now, the last four Steeler games or three
games have basically just felt like playoff games.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
That Detroit game.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
Was as fun to watch as any Steeler game that
I have ever sat down at a bar stool in
Pittsburgh with a bar full of Steeler fans and watch
it was.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
It felt so.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Good, it was cathartic. We needed that win. We needed
a game like that. Guys came up big. Kenny Gainwell
proved why he would eventually be named the Steelers' MVP
with that one, and all the feelings were happening.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
And the Ravens lose that week and.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Think, now all we have to do is beat the
Browns and were in the postseason.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
But you're not gonna have DK because he punched that fan.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
We won't need him it's the Browns, it turns into tears.

Speaker 11 (16:37):
Now.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
I have to tell you I had to watch that
with my significant other's family, and some of them are
Bears fans, and even some of the Pittsburgh ones. Their
investment in the team is not like what minus Oh no,
So I had to explain that while some people are like, oh,
it'll be fun to watch the game with Randy, I

(16:59):
tried to say, no, it's not because I was, just
like every other Stealer fan, not very confident, because when
it came down to it, it was like.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well, these are the games we lose, right, these are
to the Browns, who we have no business should do,
or Sanders.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
And Dugger like you know, gets lost in the lights
and lets the door beat them for that big touchdown
that essentially was the game, you know, right off the bat.
The amount of f bombs that I was just involuntarily
screaming and the level of vitriol coming out of my mouth,

(17:37):
I scared kids.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
I scared kids who didn't understand.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
And the one guy was like, doesn't he remind you
of Daddy when the Bears are doing bad?

Speaker 3 (17:45):
And the kid's like, no more than you are, because
I just knew what it was setting up. I don't
want to call them Uncle Randy anymore.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
There was none of that they used that they did
like me until that point. They saw different side.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
I was like, you want to watch that? Hey, that's fine? Yeah,
you know it's like road to Perdition? Do you want
to go to work with Daddy?

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Just what it looks like?

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, it's not pretty.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
So I spent that week, like everybody, anxious as hell,
thinking we blew this opportunity, and just wanted to see
what it would look like if we get into the postseason,
because it's a ramshackle outfit right now that people really
don't want to fit. You don't want to play the Steelers,
you really don't in the postseason. I know they haven't

(18:35):
had a lot of success with Tonlin lately, but this
team in particular has enough weapons and they're just goofy enough,
and it's like, you know, and like it's the old trouble,
like the fighter, where you you don't know where it's
coming from. Like he's not a disciplined boxer, but he
does lots of unorthodox things. And I mean punches come
from where you don't see them, and they can be
knockout punching. That's the Steelers. Like, I can't really get

(18:58):
a read on what they do well.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Actually, I think they run the ball well, but they
don't love running the ball for some reason.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
That's a great point. I was gonna say. The whole
NFL has been a big question mark. I feel like
this entire season. But the Steelers in particular are so
hard to pin down.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
But so is Tomlin.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
I feel like that's been a narrative to where like,
sometimes we live in our fears, sometimes we don't.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Sometimes it's fourth and two, we'll do a tush push.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, fourth and one we are gonna punch.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
That's what I mean. I'm like, I don't know what's
happening anymore. Somebody just holding me.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah. Here's where I think the football gods may have
smiled down in a more global sort of regard that
more than just that miskick at the end, in making
the Steelers play these games. Detroit was a meaningful game,

(19:53):
the Browns game, meaningful game, no more meaningful.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Game than last night's game against the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
They actually set them up to have some playoff poise
heading into the postseason because all of those games essentially
had a playoff kind of vibe to him. There was
a lot on the line for each one of them,
and last night.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Being the you know win and you're in.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
It doesn't get any bigger than that, and I think
that's going to pay some dividends as they face the Texans,
who are a beatable team. It's a really good defense,
but this is a beatable team. Mike pursuita coming in
next with your post game. He was up late late.
I'm sure he only got maybe two hours of sleep
last night after last night's Steeler Audio Network postgame show,

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and he'll be joining us here Tim Bens, Jerry Dulac,
Rob King, and Moore as we celebrate the Pittsburgh Steelers
heading to the postseason after last night's twenty six to
twenty four victory over the Baltimore Ravens. And I just
can't believe that twenty seven point five fourth quarter was

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as entertaining as anything I've watched as a Steeler fan.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
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Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's gonna be a decent day, a mix of sun
and cloud's warmer high close to fifty partly cloudy tonight
than mostly cloudy overnight, dropping to thirty three cloudy to
my EV Sports Mike Pursda just came in and he
sprayed holy water all over the table. Here, I'm feeling
pretty good about today's show. Wow, how about that? And

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that was that end zone? Me? I could not believe
when it was all said and done, because that was
the first thing I wanted to know, was that, Like, a,
did that guy go to both end zones?

Speaker 11 (22:12):
All?

Speaker 15 (22:13):
He went all the way down the entirety of that
end zone. He didn't go to the other one.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Okay, so it was just that end zone. Is that
guy a priest? Do we even know St? Vincent College? Yeah? Yeah,
we met out at Saint Vincent.

Speaker 15 (22:24):
It's not Father Paul Taylor, the president of Saint Vincent College,
is another Saint Vincent.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (22:30):
Priest Missy Matthews had his name on the pregame show,
and I didn't commit it to memory because I thought, oh,
that's a cute story, you know, yeah, throwing on top
of the winner Go Home Sunday that we were enjoying.
At least I was enjoying. I thought the whole week
was fantastic.

Speaker 11 (22:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
By the way, what happened to Cleveland? I don't remember.
Do they win or lose? You mean, what do you mean?

Speaker 16 (22:54):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh oh the Steelers games?

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, well look now cares now I don't.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Well, I would have cared if we would have lost
last night. Yeah all right.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
So my point before you joined us here was that
the football gods may have.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Smiled down on the Steelers in this regard.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
They just ran them through the wringer in what is
as good of a ramp up for the playoffs as
you could ask for.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
And last night, Mike was a playoff game, no question.

Speaker 15 (23:22):
And I don't know if you guys followed along with
the extra point last week or Steelers preview on Tuesday night,
or the pregame show yesterday.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
But that was a playoff game.

Speaker 15 (23:34):
The way I was phrasing it was by definition, if
not designation. Yeah, the NFL is not going to put
that on everybody's playoff record, but it was win or
go home against a quality opponent, the kind of which
you see in the playoffs. So the whole point, you know, Yeah,
the Cleveland game sucked on many levels, but they were

(23:57):
gonna have to play that.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Game sooner or later.

Speaker 15 (23:59):
Anyway, get it over with, cut to the chase, play
the Ravens with your season on the line, and see
if you're good enough for.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
That environment without DK Metcalf.

Speaker 15 (24:08):
And without DK Metcalf, who, by the way, is now.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Eligible to run.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
I know, but that was the rub on all of that,
was that you were doing it and you felt like
you kind of got screwed and that you didn't have
DK and you weren't going to be able to put
your best foot forward. I think it all ended up
evening out with injuries last night because the Ravens got
decimated throughout the game.

Speaker 15 (24:29):
They had a tough game atrition wise, but you know,
it's the big leaks.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
It is the big that happens, and they had some
friendly fire knock. The most valuable defensive player off the field.

Speaker 15 (24:39):
Dealers didn't have Metcalf, not because of injury, because of stupidity. Stupidity,
they didn't have Darnell Washington.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
That one hurt.

Speaker 15 (24:47):
That one hurts going forward to miles killed. Remember him,
he's one of our best special teams player. He hasn't
played in months. Uh thought about him on that forty
two yard kickoff return after Yeah, Boswell extra point didn't work.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Didn't work as a good That is a judicious way
of saying it.

Speaker 15 (25:04):
Well, I said it didn't work because I thought he
missed it. The play by play sheet is saying it
got blocked. I didn't see that. I haven't looked at
it more than you know, just watching it live.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
But he was hitting every He was hitting bad balls
last night. Anybody who's been at the golf range. That's
what it's like when the flight of the ball ain't right.
It's going in the right direction, but not exactly, and
the rotation on the ball, even that fifty seven yarder
he just kind of muscled that one through low trajectory
looked weird. And that was worrying me all night, Like God,
if it comes down to a boss kick, but I

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certainly didn't think it would come into play on an
extra point.

Speaker 15 (25:42):
And conversely, Tyler Tyler Luke, the Ravens rookie. He was
only one for four from fifty yards or longer this season,
but he was crushing it in the pregame. He was
banging from fifty nine to sixty and he was twenty
nine for twenty nine this season from forty nine yards
or closer.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Wow, that was his first miss. That what hey, that's
the power of Jesus. The Lord wants the stealers to win.
He might at least taken the points. And you think
he took the three down? No, no, he had money line.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Obviously he get free to happy won You know that
kid goes through God still get saved.

Speaker 15 (26:28):
Yeah, no, No, it wasn't doing the math. Yeah. God
loves a good underdog.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
God loves the Steelers. That was Dan Rooney, Dan Rooney. Yeah,
he did a little.

Speaker 11 (26:42):
Out of there.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
What a game? Are you not entertained? Twenty six to twenty.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Most entertaining game I've watched, and I don't know how
maybe since the Lions game two weeks before.

Speaker 15 (26:52):
One of the best games in that facility's history. Whether
we're talking about Hinesfield or Acresser Stadium. And isn't it
funny how they all seem to be against the Ravens,
all the memorables.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Well, what a great rivalry.

Speaker 15 (27:03):
Uh, it's not hyperbole when we talk all every season
when these games come up, there's at least two of
them every year, and they're just they're just special.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
They are special. It's amazing to me. Make Mike Tomlin
and John Arball live forever. Well, may they coach forever,
coach against each other. I don't know if Harba will
still be in Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
He might not.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
I mean, there was a lot of talk about whoever
lost that game might be walking out the door, and
I wasn't wasn't gonna be Tomlin. Well, maybe of his
own accord. I don't think the organization was going to
tell him to leave it there.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
I find that inconceivable.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
So do I, so do I. My point is with
with all of this, that watching that game and the
Steelers and Ravens mystique wasn't enough to get this town
as excited as it needed to be about this game.

Speaker 15 (28:00):
This town's gotten soft on football, and it's a bunch.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Of after the Steelers lost to the Browns. He spent
a week. If you were on social media, all you
heard is they're gonna lose and Tomlin and and I
just couldn't believe how set Steeler fans seemed to be
in the we're gonna lose this one camp.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
And it was driving me a little crazy.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Now, did my frustration bubble over on that first series
from the Ravens last night and think, yeah, they.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Were right, sure it? Yeah, I'm guilty of that.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Did I think Arthur Smith was screwing up with the
game plan early on and calling him so I made
no sense to me, run the eff and ball, just
you run the ball?

Speaker 3 (28:41):
So well, yeah, I thought he was screwing up lust
and I really did. I was so surprised they weren't
running more early.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
It made statistically, it made no sense to me. You
could have, especially without DK hey make them load up
against the run again, you know, but they were daring
Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball, and you know he
still got a little of that far venom and he wants.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
To take those shots. You know.

Speaker 15 (29:06):
The one negative reaction I had after the Cleveland game,
or the biggest negative reaction was, uh, Marquez Valdez Scantling.
I get why they acquired him because they were deficient
at wide receiver, and he had a history in the league,
and he's accomplished some things in the league. He accomplished
some things with Aaron Rodgers in the league. And when
you're picking guys up off the scrap, he if you're

(29:26):
looking for a diamond in the rough, it's a crapshoot
to begin with. So why not get a guy that's
got a little bit of a resume and a history
with your quarterback?

Speaker 3 (29:33):
They yeah, hey, it.

Speaker 15 (29:34):
Ain't getting done now, this is worth a shot, right,
And then he was so bad against the Browns. The
second down play on the goal. I don't know if
you remember. All always got to do is running in cut. Yes,
they ran John Smith from right to left and feeling
from left to right or the other way around.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
But they had two guys clearing out and it was
there was a lie you.

Speaker 15 (29:56):
Could drive a truck through. To throw the ball. All
you had to do was being the right place at
the right time, and he wasn't.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
And then on the fourth down to go to him again,
there is where I really well, but that's where the
single was it was it was it was interferenced to.
It was either that or the single coverage Scotty Miller
on the guy they traded uh from from Jacksonville the
other really, Oh yeah, it's another first round guy and
he's what's his name Campbell? Yes, so you know Aaron

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Rodgers all year, he's gone where the single coverage is, He's.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Thrown it to who is open. He was bad in
that game. I thought. I thought he was too.

Speaker 15 (30:31):
I thought if they were going to beat Baltimore's Arthur
Smith was gonna have to come up with some creative
way to get the tight ends involved. And then a
Friarmuth caught a couple last night, a couple of big ones.
But I thought it was gonna have to be a
huge Friarmuth John who Smith game and a huge running
backs game like Gamewell catches eleven and Warren catches nine.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
They stuck with those guys, and you.

Speaker 15 (30:54):
Know, getting Calvin Austin back was a critical addition. Oh yeah,
it was a New England game all over again.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
There at the end, right, he gets in the end
zone for the winning touchdown.

Speaker 15 (31:03):
But they had the faith and one of the reasons
they're going to the playoffs is Aaron Rodgers and the
Steelers never stopped believing in fact they might just be
getting started.

Speaker 17 (31:14):
It just takes a little belief. At this point in
the season. There's fourteen teams, it'll be left. Eighteen will
be playing their off seasons, going to be a part
of the fourteen after you know, so many years, you know,
twenty two we lost in the last game the next
playoffs twenty three hours out, twenty four we were terrible.
So it's nice to be back in this position.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Tim Benz joins us when we come back a full
morning of Steeler coverage as the Pittsburgh Steelers are headed
to the postseason as AFC North champs after beating the
Baltimore Ravens twenty six to twenty four last night Sunday
Night Football in the Burg. And it's on to week
one of the postseason. And if Mike Tomlin can get

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that elusive postseason win and get people to stop talking
about that, this entire.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Slaron Rodgers project will have been worth it.

Speaker 15 (32:03):
It already has been and they need to find something
else to talk about, because that was a playoff.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Game last night.

Speaker 13 (32:08):
Yes, your favorite table is available, and yes, you build
the menu. The DVE workforce has the run at the kitchen. Yeah,
with Michelle Michaels now broke on the DVE Electric Lunch
at noon.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
If you're from Pittsburgh, you are built tough to withstand
our winters.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Rogers gets a snap four man rush coming Rodgers back
lofting up.

Speaker 18 (32:33):
Hasn't been wide open touchdown, Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 19 (32:38):
What fifty five.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Second dramatic, unreal with workmanlike precision.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Aaron Rodgers takes the team right down the field, scores
a touchdown, answers for the sixty four year yard touchdown
to Zay Flowers on the previous possession by the Ravens
in which he was wide open, which I stated last night.
Being a Steelers fan means that in the biggest games,

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having to contend with at least three or four times
in that game wondering why the guy you would think
the defense would be keyed on is wide open in
a cow pasture. And last night it wasn't Gronk. This
time it was Zay Flowers, Tim Benz joining us. Benzi
quite a response from the Steelers to go right back
down the field there and get that touchdown from Austin.

(33:29):
But it was the Boss missed extra point that caused
all of the drama on that last drive.

Speaker 20 (33:36):
Yeah, and they listed it as a block in the
official play by play. They said that one of the
Ravens got a piece of it on the way up,
and I looked at it close as I could, and
I couldn't tell. But it is pretty clear that the
pressure on the kick, if nothing else, caught the miss
more than anything. I heard you guys before, and apparently

(33:59):
to Eco said during the play by play that Boss
was having a rough pregame and missed a couple yea,
So maybe you're right. You know that there was something
mechanical going on with him last night, But if nothing else,
at the very least some poor blocking up front, I
think led to the pat miss.

Speaker 11 (34:17):
More than anything else. And the Holy water led to
the miss obviously.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yes, the holy water, of course, yes, right.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Well, Kyle Hamilton might have wanted to have some of
that water tossed on his head because after he got injured.
Steelers prior to that injury three point nine yards of
play thirty seven thirty seven percent success rate after the
injury six point nine yards per play sixty percent success rate,
and it was undeniable. It seemed like a different game

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after he was out there, and they were able to
do a whole lot more.

Speaker 15 (34:47):
Mike, he's a very good player on a defense that
doesn't have very many of those.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
Yeah, I think he's to him. Maybe not quite what TJ.

Speaker 20 (34:55):
Watt was a few years ago to the Steelers, but
he's their most important guy on that side of the ball,
and the Wiggans getting hurt on top of that certainly
helped the pass effort for the Steelers as well. And
it is ironic that, after you know, two weeks of
bemoaning and rightfully so, their lack of roster construction for
wide receiver depth beyond DK Metcalf, that the one guy

(35:18):
they kept promising.

Speaker 11 (35:19):
Over and over again was a worthy number two.

Speaker 20 (35:22):
Became that on the touchdowns far sideline to Calvin Austin.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Oh hit.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
You know, go back and look at that route that
he runs. He absolutely drops the defender to his knees.
He's down on all fours. He got burnt so bad
on the cut from Austin on that one which gave
him the almost too wide.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Open You know, I had one of those fears.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Look at remember my Dad saying he too open. Now
you can just see the ball coming down and the
pressure's on there. You want a little bit of defense,
but no, he lofted it into his arms. There Aaron
Rodgers brilliant with one hundred and thirty quarterback rating there
in the fourth quarter, he was I think eleven and
fourteen in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
I was a little upset with.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
That first half, particularly because mostly the first quarter. But
if you bang one in there at the end of
the first half, Tim and then get the ball back, well,
you know, it's a different ballgame there. And Kyle Hamilton's
still playing at that point. What did you think of
the way they handled the end of the first half.

Speaker 20 (36:26):
I thought the second quarter was really bad, and I
thought in particular, Rogers was bad in the second quarter.

Speaker 11 (36:33):
You know, he misses an open John Who's.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Oh god, was open? Didn't it look like he was?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
He was setting his feet for a bigger, for a
longer throw, and then saw John Ewan tried to adjust.
He just didn't have his feet under him there. Yeah,
I don't know what happened. It was a three man rush.

Speaker 15 (36:47):
Against a six man protection he had all day and
Hambledon was like ten yards behind Johnny Smith.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
He might have caught that and run it in. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (36:56):
And then what about the scramble on the next snap.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
I don't up if he keeps going there, Tim, maybe
he doesn't get the first down.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Sure, okay, I can see that.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
I can see how he looked at that angle and
find I can't beat him, but you're gonna get enough
yards to make it forth.

Speaker 21 (37:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (37:14):
And then how they handled the red zone high red
zone to low red zone sequence where they threw the
ball to the sidelines twice and still couldn't get guys
out of bounds and had to burn timeouts and then
pitching it backwards on a play do or die to
get into the end zone or walk with no points.

(37:36):
For the whole play is built around Pat Fryarmouth blocking
at least one guy if not to when he can't
flock anybody like there was just nothing intelligent about that
play design, and it was almost like Tomlin tucked himself
into it. You know, he would have been more comfortable
taking the points and in a raven Steelers game at halftime,

(37:57):
with the way the defense was performing, I would have
been fine with that. But you know, because the past
interference happened on third down, Tom would seem to feel
obligated to go forward on the new first and goal,
and I just think that they reached in the bag
and pulled out the first ticket they found, and it
was pitch gain well of the week's side, where there
weren't more blockers than they were tacklers, and it was

(38:19):
just bad from jump streets. So to answer your question,
I hated how the second quarter ended.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
So now it's onto the Texans and you get DK
Metcalf back for an offense that desperately needs to have
him in there. By the way, is anybody happier about
that win last night than Dk Metcalf Boswell, well, Chris, Yeah,
but at least he would have died with his boots
on it. And now yeah, literally he wouldn't have off himself. Now, No,

(38:49):
I think DK is probably, but I don't know what
kind of guy is. It's like, would George Pickens have
been I think believed DK. You think he is, well
not now, but but he had been and if would
have lost, Yeah, he was feeling the pressure. Well that's
good to know. I'm glad to hear that because somebody
like George Pickens, I think would have been like, hey,
you know, hey, it happens. I don't know that for
a fact. I still think that that suspension was too long.

(39:10):
But that's neither here nor there now. But getting him
back does give Aaron Rodgers a little bit more room
to move right now, a little bit more another chess piece, certainly,
tim it does.

Speaker 20 (39:26):
But the you know, the ability to move, that room
to move that you're talking about, lessons significantly against that
Houston's defense.

Speaker 11 (39:35):
To what we saw last night, the Ravens defense.

Speaker 20 (39:38):
For as much as you look at the logo and
you still see images of Ed Reed and ray Lewis dancing.

Speaker 11 (39:44):
Through your head, it ain't that, no, I know.

Speaker 20 (39:46):
And the Texans is like, the Texans might be more
of a fact simile of the Ravens defense back then
than this Ravens defense is. And it's gonna be really
tough to move against those guys, and points really.

Speaker 11 (39:59):
Will be at a premium in that contest.

Speaker 20 (40:02):
I think they're number one in the NFL when it
comes to yards allowed.

Speaker 11 (40:05):
They're number two in the NFL by a matter decimal.

Speaker 20 (40:08):
Points against the versus the Seahawks when it comes to
points allowed. So this is a defense that allows very little,
and the pass rush is going to be significant against Rodgers.

Speaker 11 (40:20):
It's not just a one man pass rush where they.

Speaker 20 (40:22):
Can overload against Garrett and make his life a little
easier like they did against Cleveland and still end up
losing the game. So I have some qualms about them
playing Houston in the first round, but at least they
got the playoffs. They're back to where they were last year.
It does go a long way. Like you guys were
saying to validate the whole Rogers acquisition, but it was

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brought here to win.

Speaker 11 (40:43):
A playoff game, So win a playoff game.

Speaker 20 (40:46):
I do draw a thicker line between those two things
than like you guys are talking about the six thirty
Sports cast.

Speaker 11 (40:52):
But he's here, He's got his chance, so go ahead
and do it now.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Prior to that, do you want to bring him back?

Speaker 20 (40:58):
I still know if I do. I mean, yeah, I
still don't know if I do. Last night, you know,
at the second quarter, I sure as heck did not.
I wanted a quarterback that was gonna finish that scrambles.

Speaker 11 (41:09):
Who I wanted the second quarter?

Speaker 20 (41:11):
Then I saw a guy who went eleven or fourteen
against the Ravens in a do or die moment, so
he'll be part of that game that'll be at That's
like Tom was referencing this. I think you guys were
talking about it too. There's a lot of chapters to
this rivalry. This is a pretty good chret chapter that
we saw last night. Now paid off by writing a
PostScript that's got a playoff victory attached to it.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
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Speaker 11 (41:38):
Oh you got it, guys.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
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Speaker 5 (41:47):
All right, it's time to get rid of your live
Christmas tree.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
The city's gonna help, And since none of us were
paying attention, we'll do the Critics Choice Awards.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Hard Radio Station, garn he eat Human.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Oh Boswell's point attempt is no good. It drifts wide right,
and now a field goal will win it for the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
First extra point miss of this season for Chris Boswell.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Max Starks, Oh my goodness. Next, to Rob King and
his goodness, gracious.

Speaker 5 (42:32):
Golly mine, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Even look up to see that extra point.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
I was still celebrating the Calvin Austin touchdown, the twenty
six yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers when bos missed
that extra point.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
Boss had not been hitting the ball well.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
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, 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. I

(43:08):
still haven't seen that. You know, the official score sheet
says that that was a blocked extra point that almost standing.
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 3 (43:27):
And then this was the ensuing kickoff.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Was Boswell with the Boot'll come down to Mitchell at
the five yard line, right in the middle of the field,
going to angle toward the right and get 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 3 (43:54):
Yeah, it was. Then I started turning off the lights
just that. All right, time to go to bed.

Speaker 19 (43:58):
I know you want to start that engaging your emotions
from that at that point and you say, don't hurt
me too much.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I'm gonna build my walls back up.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Yeah, because you know, if he makes the extra point
and they kick a field will to tie.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Even then I'm thinking, all right, well, let's just hey,
you're high.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
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 the pass game.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Well and Warren were both great last night.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
That first half, though Derrick Henry ran wild and then
in the second half non factor.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
The Steelers defense rose up.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
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.
But to have given up on this guy and people

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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.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
To me, that guy was an absolute.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
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 19 (45:20):
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 4 (45:38):
And that gave me a new appreciation when he's getting
double teams less and right, you know. And he was
destructive and disruptive and it allowed them to do some
things defensively.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
They took some chances.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
That first touchdown passed from Lamar to a wide open
Devonte's walker for the thirty eight yarder on was that
fourth down?

Speaker 3 (45:56):
I believe it was fourth down.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
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 unsave Flowers for a
sixty four yard touchdown reception?

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Was he even targeted before that? Though? I don't I
don't even know if he had one reception before that.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
I think that fifty yard touchdown was his first target,
even sixty four yard or he in sixty four? 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.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Get the rail back.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
A long backgrounds and they were brilliant in controlling the
clock last night, the Steelers. 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 3 (46:51):
That was big.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Also, the interception that TJ came up with, I would
elect to have seen him come.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Up with more than a field goal in response.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
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 gonna be able to do
a lot offensively, but then when Hamilton gets hurt, I'll
tell you what Aaron Rodgers was. He could have put
up thirty seven points on that On that team last night,

(47:20):
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 wrong play now and I still hate the
play call on that one, but I'm glad they had

(47:41):
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 Ravens game there has ever been, maybe not

(48:03):
as much as on the line as in the AFC
Championship games. Eight 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 19 (48:18):
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 like he was gonna cry.
He did, Oh he was in years past, like I
would have been like Scott Farcas from a Christmas story

(48:38):
and were.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Like, what are you going to cry for?

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Cry for me?

Speaker 19 (48:43):
And now I just feel kind of like, oh, that's
his mom's probably dying at home right now.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Well, empathy is in short supply these days, but when
it comes to sports, I always have it in particular
for you know, goalies, kickers, the guy who guys who
get left out, you know on their own and a
tea sport. When I saw Harbaugh walking him up the ramp, yeah,
with his arm around him, and the kid had his
the gator pulled up over his nose. I mean, I

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just I couldn't help but feel.

Speaker 19 (49:13):
Like, oh God, that poor well then like they used
to because the Bills Stadium. He's twenty two years old.
I know, that's 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.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Rally back.

Speaker 19 (49:29):
But like, I don't know, I 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?

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Scott Norwood? Do you think maybe Norwood?

Speaker 19 (49:38):
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, and that guy still 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 Hields.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
He just missed that bad one. That one.

Speaker 19 (49:58):
It's just rough. That pressure is rough on that one.
You don't have anybody to blame.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
But your cell, you know. 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.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
To go up.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
That was my brother's first pro experience was kicking instead
of Scott Norwood. But anyways, fast forward to last night's
Steelers Ravens game. 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

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to me were Jalen Warren and Gainwell, and my god,
both of them are gamers, and in terms of yards
after contact those guys were.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Warren was alian.

Speaker 19 (50:47):
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.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Well, you know what, though, they were turning them into
into some chunks and they were getting themselves in position
to convert, and they came up with some huge conversions
in the second half. An absolute shocker last night that
that game ended the way it did.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
I cannot believe.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
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 played it last hour. Tarico,
he gave us an announcer Jinks for the aegis we
should everybody should send him an email of thanks today.

Speaker 9 (51:42):
Is tellinglikely how special that play was to set up
this moment for the rookie out of Arizona.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
The Ravens, of course, had.

Speaker 9 (51:49):
Justin Tucker for so long, the most accurate kicker in
the history of the league.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
Rogers can't believe what he has just witnessed might be
the end for him.

Speaker 9 (51:59):
But they 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 this.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Man, And I'm staring at the TV standing up, all
the lights are off.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
I'm gonna click it off and go to bed.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
I'm just pissed. Beyond belief and I couldn't believe this
is how the football gone drew it up and then.

Speaker 10 (52:28):
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 forty four.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Stick could hold, Oh my crazy, I'm the Steelers. I'm
a chuckets of the North. Steelers are the champions in
the North.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
Listening to that crowd, and by the way, kudos to
the sixty five thousand who showed up last night at
Agroshere Stadium in what was a tough ask of a
Steeler fan.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
It really was coming off.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
A long holiday after you lose to the Browns and
you were probably not feeling great.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Here's what I think happened. Why was that crowd so
great last night?

Speaker 4 (53:15):
Because tickets to a Steelers Ravens game were low demands.
If you look the ticket prices before that, going for
club seats for one hundred and change.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Whoa wow.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
You could get in for fifty dollars last night and
sit in a lower five hundred section.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Yeah wow.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
When the demand went down all of the sudden, a
lot of diehards you 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 PPG Paints Arena when the Iglu had,

(53:58):
you know, 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 3 (54:12):
Then PPG got a little corporate as soon as.

Speaker 19 (54:15):
Wy Goo Beef came into Yeah, and that's that was
it for the the fun people.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
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 and
muscle their way in there, and they were huge.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
TJ. Watt talked about it. Tomlin talked about it.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
The Steeler Nation performance last night, which could have gone
the other way.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Let's be yeah, let's be honest.

Speaker 19 (54:50):
I have to say, I think you're getting it's a
little revisionist history because it was teetering pretty hard in
the first quarter. Okay, if that if that tips over
the other way, that hoy Poloy that you So they
might have been taking seats home with them at that Well, okay,
but it didn't and they came through. All right, Now,
Renegade colossal fail, but it did have a big response

(55:14):
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.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
The answer is not to get rid of Renegade. Very
simply play Renegade in the first half. Stop putting so
much of an onus on whether Renegade inspires a big
needed defensive stand.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Because now I think it's getting into the players heads. Yeah,
like we gotta do something here.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
What if put it in the first half, everyone gets
their towel Waven experience and it's.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Hey, it just doesn't have as much weight to it.

Speaker 19 (55:51):
I think maybe it shouldn't be mandated that it must
be played every game, like the Bills game. They should
have just pocket Vat told 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 3 (56:10):
Yes, me too.

Speaker 6 (56:11):
I want to jump off your idea, though, what if
you did it going into.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
The second half. It was a way to get people
back in their seats.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Oh, it's like like these hurry up and get out
of the bathroom.

Speaker 6 (56:26):
Like everybody freaks out and they want to be part
of Renegade and everything, and then like you're hyping up
getting back to the game regardless of what happened.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
I like this.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
Okay, that's a good idea, Abby, I love it. Although
you know it would take away the defense. You know,
if we're getting the ball, that's the only thing.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
Well, we're cutting it down either way. We're ending with
your idea.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Yeah, you're right, you're right. It's getting trimms, that's right.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Toe that if that takes away some of the significance
of it, some of the onus, and it gives everybody
the experience because the Terrible Towel resurgence is in big
part due to the Renegade thing that that has helped
sustain and revive the Terrible Towel.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Prominence at these games.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
And keep in mind, the fiftieth anniversary of the Terrible
Towel 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 3 (57:19):
Oh you were in it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
They used my song, the Terrible Towel Song, because it
kind of highlighted those two thousands when when.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
You know, t J.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
Huschman Zada was rubbing out, you know, and the Titans
buried the flag and it bit them both in the ass.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Immediately.

Speaker 19 (57:33):
Got to 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 their little yellow napkins. 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 3 (57:50):
They're going to get theirs.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
Yeah, he got a bad bluffer upper bleff. So you know, ye.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
That's the plastic yeah bluff.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
Yeah, we got them.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Okay. So here's the good news.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
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 19 (58:12):
And on four PM game on Monday, let's go.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
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 it 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 3 (58:42):
Just an absolute blast.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
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 here before we get to the break.

Speaker 6 (58:57):
I was going to tell people that they could recycle
their Careerristmas trees. I don't know how pressing that is
this morning, but.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
I'm a Christmas present.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
I felt like Jimmy Stewart lesson. I wish I was
never a Feeler fan.

Speaker 6 (59:10):
Yeah yeah, this is only for people who have live
Christmas trees.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Okay, but basically they won't just dispense with your fake one. Well,
I mean most fake ones are just plastic and aluminum.
You can probably recycle those two.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
I mean I I've always had a fake one.

Speaker 6 (59:25):
I don't I don't mess with real trees anyway because
I don't have the band with horst.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
That's why. Well, you have cats, your cats would beat
in your trees.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
I have to.

Speaker 6 (59:34):
I have a hook that stays in the wall year
round that I have to just 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 overund 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

(59:55):
eleven drop off sites for live Christmas trees. These are
the Public Works look in Perry, North, East End, Hazelwood,
and West End, as well as additional locations in Highland Park,
Squirrel Hill, and 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.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
In the spring.

Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
Just make sure all the ornaments, 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 19 (01:00:31):
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 5 (01:00:52):
Miss some tinsel.

Speaker 6 (01:00:53):
I will save the Critics Choice Awards for maybe next hour,
because we can go ahead and jump in there because
you've mentioned a couple shows that you were talking about
that now I'm interested in.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Oh yeah, Mike, we were to tell you my Christmas
vacation this year was a lot of My mom got
sick like so many people did, and it knocked out
our Christmas Uh and I made up for it by
cocooning and watching.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
What do they call it bed rotting? I wasn't in bed.
I was couch rotting. Yeah, no, it's not. I just couldn't.

Speaker 5 (01:01:26):
Yeah no, yeah, it's couch rotting.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Couch trotting. I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
I'm jealous.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
I had some workouts.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
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, turned me roll.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
I'm a rotisserie chicken when we come back.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
Mike Pursuita joins US Steelers twenty six, Ravens twenty four.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
Was that it for Lamar and Harbaugh together.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Lamar last night posted on social media a still of
Scronic leveraging on the missed field goal, thinking that should
have been called. I guess we'll talk to Jean Stairtor
about that tomorrow. The refs they gave it and they
taketh away.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Dude. I saw with Lamar.

Speaker 19 (01:02:07):
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 off his back.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
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 3 (01:02:39):
It just seemed like, is this preordained?

Speaker 11 (01:02:41):
Is there?

Speaker 21 (01:02:42):
Is this?

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Is this just something?

Speaker 19 (01:02:46):
He looks phenomenal, like, he looks unbeatable.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
It's a step wants to throw it back to past pressure,
clumbing pit, spin down of a sack, waiting, throwing, lobbing
deep down field and taught for a touchdown by say Flowers. Oh,
tremendous play by Lamar Jackson and from fifty yards out.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Just like that, the Ravens have retaken the league. He
does stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
But I'm telling you right now, Ravens fans are gonna
look at that last drive and they're gonna have some
questions about some of the things that some of the
opportunities that he did not take it. He 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 left there.

Speaker 19 (01:03:32):
I don't know getting him in position with fifty seconds left,
forty yard field.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Fourth and seven and that ball to Isaiah likely snap back,
the pass pressure coming steps up, floats down field and
it is caught leaping rab by Isaiah likely at the
twenty two yard line, and the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Ravens have called time out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Tremendous catch a twenty eight yard pickup. Only twelve seconds
remain here at Akroshurch Stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
No herbig on the field on that one. No Kem Hayward.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
My dog was barking NonStop because I was screaming.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
What's going on? Please, you're upset. I'm upset. My dog
was so upset. That's really what this is. My poor dog.

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
He just when those Steeler games go on, he is
on high alert. He's very worried. Thank god, I put
that little barrel full of rum on her eye.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Come pull you out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
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.

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Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
It's got to be a decent day, a mix of
sun and cloud's warmer high close to fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Yeah, still just.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
Trying to come down from last night's Steelers' Big World.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
The thing that we haven't even really talked too much
about we joked about the last sports cast, the fact
they had a priest go out and put holy water
in the end zone, that Tyler Loop ended up shanking
the game away on will go down as one of the.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Most retold Steeler focal historic story right there.

Speaker 4 (01:05:53):
That will be something we talk about forever.

Speaker 19 (01:05:58):
I think we've proven one thing is that Tyler Loop
is a Satanist, clearly, why else, well maybe, well, who knows,
maybe that you know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
A lot of people are like he was administering last rites.
Tomlin's done, I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
Maybe they should sell like those holy water, like Steeler
holy water, you know, flickers.

Speaker 15 (01:06:19):
Yeah, if you do that, then you're advocating fans throw
stuff on each other.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
That's already going on.

Speaker 16 (01:06:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Yeah, that actually might be blasphemic.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
I don't know, but somehow it sure worked for the
Steelers last night twenty six, twenty four MIC.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Sports is Up, brought to you by Bridgeville.

Speaker 15 (01:06:36):
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 3 (01:06:52):
And yes, Mike Tomlin saw that coming.

Speaker 22 (01:06:56):
I've been married him from Afar for a long time.
Is good to 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, 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 is he's not only capable man, he

(01:07:20):
thrives in it. And I think he put that on
display tonight.

Speaker 15 (01:07:24):
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 21 (01:07:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:07:44):
I mean, that's what you want. You want the ball
in your hands with two twenty left and you need
a touchdown. That's exactly what you want.

Speaker 21 (01:07:53):
And I was.

Speaker 17 (01:07:53):
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.

Speaker 21 (01:08:14):
And even at two.

Speaker 17 (01:08:15):
Minute, I was like, yeah, you know, we're good, We're
gonna go down to 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 15 (01:08:28):
Yeah, that's more legendary stuff. Don't worry about it, boys,
We're gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Get out of score sixty five yards, six plays, no timeouts,
eighty five seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
On that final touchdown drive.

Speaker 15 (01:08:39):
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 21 (01:08:50):
Calvin's the sweetest guy.

Speaker 17 (01:08:51):
I mean he is just ever since the Malibu tripping
the off season, just have such a love and appreciation
for per 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,

(01:09:15):
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. So I said, all right, you run
a hitch and go back there. 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

(01:09:37):
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 21 (01:09:47):
They played really well.

Speaker 15 (01:09:50):
You know, everybody's a lot of reaction of amazement. Well,
how could they be so bad against Cleveland and so
good against Baltimore. Bolivard on that Miles Garrett. Nobody has
Miles getting except Cleveland. Steelers have Teazer wat There are
other good edge rushers, but Baltimore has no pass rush.
It changes the game when you can block with five

(01:10:12):
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. People think TJ. Watts had a terrible year.
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

(01:10:32):
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 19 (01:10:40):
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 pac that he
had the feeling where he put it inside a shoe
box over the middle linebackers. I mean, you're just like
this guy. He still got it in a million ways.

Speaker 15 (01:11:00):
To Friarmuth, Uh, he was incomplete. I'm not talking about
the scene ball back. 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 3 (01:11:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
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 15 (01:11:20):
Couldn't couldn't have placed it, couldn't have walked down there
and placed it in a better spot. Guy's really good still,
and smart people knew that well.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
He was burning up time out.

Speaker 15 (01:11:31):
People that actually watched them play and talked to him
and investigated it instead of just say.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Oh, he wanted to go with the judge. Why would
they want this clown?

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
Well, Mike, there were plenty of NFL teams who didn't
want them, and the Steelers were one of them.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
He was way down on their list. I think Minnesota
would have been better if they signed him. Here's what
I hated.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
An entire week of speculation of where Aaron Rodgers will
play next year and what Mike Tomlin is going to
do next year. That whole week leading up to last
night was driving me crazy. I was talking to a
neighbor mine about it. I just kind of lost it.
Steam started flying out of my ears. I'm like, Wow,
there's a game, a game. We have a game. The
playoffs are still we could have a home playoff game if.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
We beat the Ravens. And people are talking about where
Aaron Rodgers is gonna play next year? Can everyone get
your head straight? You should probably take tomorrow off then, yeah, because.

Speaker 15 (01:12:24):
Well you talk about a certain sportscaster, you know it's
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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 3 (01:14:49):
Quarter, could have done top thirty five or forty.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
Game along with Abby Krisner and Mike pursuita Jeff Conckle
hanging out with us this morning here as well.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
Let's start at number five.

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
Third quarter Steelers desperately needing to get a touchdown down
ten to three.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
Adam Feeling, who is working his ass off out there.
I will say that you can see the guys really.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Working, but he hasn't been able to get separation necessary
to get anything done until Aaron Rodgers. And this seemed
to be the ball that turned Aaron Rodgers on clutch.

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
For the second half.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
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 1 (01:15:37):
Back to pass looking throwing up the right scene. Beautifully
thrown ball and what a catch by Feeling type coverage
by Humphrey. I mean that was a dark a perfect
crowd out of the eleven yard line.

Speaker 15 (01:15:53):
Coincidentally, three plays after Kyle Hampton left the game.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
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. They are brothers,

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They're actual brothers. Connor with the one yard touchdown plunge Shell.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
City Scheve once again snapped a Hayward on her Hayward.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Second rushing touched out of the season, caps off a
beautiful opening drive here for the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
Exactly what they needed to do after blowing that drive
to end the first half. 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 and

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went up seventeen to ten, I thought, well, that's a
foot on the neck.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
They're not getting enough from that, but all right.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
Next best thing you tie it up, You get some
mojo and that gets the defense playing even hungrier.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
And TJ. Watt always alert on where the ball is.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
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 (01:17:21):
Jackson back to pass bro Finites pat it down and
picked off, picked off by TJ.

Speaker 18 (01:17:27):
Watt, bat it down by high.

Speaker 25 (01:17:29):
Smith and what somehow fun on a deflection hit this
place hits going bucks 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.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Ten, and 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 15 (01:17:51):
I think that hit a Ravens offensive lineman and Jackson
before it got.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
The what it pingponged around like yeah, like eight guys.
And by the way, a ninth career interception for TJ. Watt.

Speaker 15 (01:18:01):
He has one hundred plus sacks and nine plus picks
in his career. The lists of guys who have also
done that in NFL history Julius Peppers and Lawrence Taylor. Wow,
that's the list now it includes TJ Watt. Your number
two play of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
After Lamar Jackson connects for sixty four yards with a
Flowers two twenty left in the game and the Ravens
are winning twenty four to twenty, Aaron Rodgers methodically surgically
leads the Steelers down the field and what with turned

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out to be too much time left on the clock
fifty five seconds.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
He sees Calvin.

Speaker 4 (01:18:47):
Austen leaves the defender in the dust and hits him
for a twenty six yard touchdown to put the Steelers
up twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Twenty four, Rogers gets a snap, four man rush coming,
Rogers back lofting up.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
How's a dad wide open cut down, Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 23 (01:19:03):
What fifty five second reading?

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
And now Boswell's on to kick the extra point and
put the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
Up by front.

Speaker 4 (01:19:12):
Don't now the official scorer sheet says that was Block
says block, And.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
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 h We talked
about this on the pregame show. There's something amiss with
the snaphold kick process. I don't know if it's all
Boz or if it's the snaps or the holes. He's
missed the kick in three consecutive games, which for him

(01:19:41):
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 with Tyler Loop,
rookie kicker who has Mike Turco pointed out, was in
if you'd buy the Ravens front office to make sure

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he had the right stuff turned out again, the wide
right stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
And so what is our top play of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
No, it's not Tyler Loops missed forty four yard field
goal attempt. It's father Maximilian Maxwell blessing the end zone
where Loop would shake.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
That kick prior to the game. This is your play
of the game.

Speaker 9 (01:20:30):
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 etric point
in a field goal, I should say, and allows uh yeah,

(01:20:53):
allows the Steelers to advance.

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
Here's a snap, here's the hole, here's the boot by Loop,
and that kick is.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Right and you're Pittsburgh Steelers are shit nor champions.

Speaker 19 (01:21:13):
I love that you can hear Max Stark's high fiving
everybody around it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
You just hear Meat just hitting. Oh it is the greatest.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
Darly this morning, the Pittsburgh Steelers are your AMC.

Speaker 21 (01:21:30):
Web champs, the great football team.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
This isn't a good one, Pittsburgh Steelers. That guy doesn't
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Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Staff back the past pressure coming steps up, floats down
field and it is caught a leaping by Isaiah Likely
at the twenty two yard line and the Ravens have
called time out. Tremendous catch a twenty eight yard pickup.
Only twelve seconds remain here at Akrosher Stadium.

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
Fourth and seven and they converted that one. There was
no Nate Herbig, no Cam Hayward on the field for
that play. Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Don't understand that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Jalen Ramsey still had an opportunity to make a big
play there and didn't come up with it. Patrick Queen
did not have the game. I was open he was
gonna have. Jalen Ramsey definitely didn't have the game.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
I was hoping he was gonna have.

Speaker 4 (01:23:36):
Joey Porter Junior still pretty solid. He was the only
part of the secondary that I thought was good. The
Steelers defensive line ed rushers really did yesterday and the
linebackers did make some tackles that needed to be made.
Secondary is kind of a mess and hopefully they can
clean a little bit of that up before they faced CJ.
Stroud Monday night at Actor Stadium for Wild Card playoff

(01:23:58):
football in Pitt's been a while since we've had a
playoff game at home, and I think it's gonna be
tough sled and Steelers are three point dogs right now,
and I like we're dogs. We're better when we're dogs.
That was a four and a half point line. Last night,
Steelers were four and a half point dogs at home
and ended up winning. Boy, they tried to do everything

(01:24:20):
they could to lose it there at the end, but
alas that is not how it unfolded. Jeff Conkle hanging
out with us and Abby Krisner coming off a long
Christmas break that was one hell of away long Christmas break.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
That one seemed longer than.

Speaker 19 (01:24:35):
I told the kids yesterday because I was trying to
get them prepared, like, you know, you're going to school tomorrow,
and you know you haven't gone to school in half
of a month, Like we gotta start.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
Do you remember how to read?

Speaker 19 (01:24:46):
Like I was really checking with the kids because that
they've done zero intellectual activities for for two weeks.

Speaker 11 (01:24:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
No, the bedtimes got why off my kid? Would it
be like.

Speaker 6 (01:24:56):
Two o'clock in the morning and she would be like,
I guess it's just it's not my nights, and I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:25:01):
Like, I guess it's not my n what is happening?

Speaker 6 (01:25:04):
And so a couple of nights ago, I was like,
I don't love the melowtonin stuff for kids, but I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Like, you're daking. You gotta get that.

Speaker 6 (01:25:16):
Just to try to get and like the earliest I
could get her to sleep would be like eleven.

Speaker 5 (01:25:22):
I'm like, close enough.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
Gotta wean, I'm back on.

Speaker 19 (01:25:24):
We started trying to do the draw down because ever
since New Year's like, we were.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
Up one, you know, one, one thirty. Yeah, but then
I started thinking.

Speaker 19 (01:25:32):
I was like, is that our natural rhythm like it
or is it just because of screen times? I was like,
you know this whole natural rhythm, circadian rhythm of people,
Like I don't believe humans were meant to go to
bed at nine thirty, you know, unless it's the screens
because I sort of feel like my natural bedtime is
three thirty. And then I also feel like my natural
wake up time is six thirty. So that's a problem. Yeah,

(01:25:53):
it's tough problem, tough window to hit there. I don't know,
you know, I keep reading about the latest thing is,
you know, humans and used to sleep through the night.

Speaker 4 (01:26:01):
They would sleep three and a half hours and then they
would get up and they would do a bunch of
chores and then they would go back to bed. And
I thought that that sounds ridiculous, and I don't believe
that it actually happened.

Speaker 19 (01:26:12):
With what like a candle, Like they didn't have flashlights
back again, what were you gonna what were you gonna do?

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
Here's the thing, you know, if the people back then
could have binge watched a show, they would have stayed
up all I cannot tell you the amount of times
over this break that I was like, well, that ought
to do it, and I should just pass out now.
And then it's like next episode in five four three,
and I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Like, I can squeeze. Maybe I'll fall asleep watching the
next nap as.

Speaker 19 (01:26:44):
My kid's got a Nintendo Switch game Zelda Tears of
the Kingdom, and let me tell you, you want to
lose yourself in six and a half hours.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
Of just like I wasn't even playing the game.

Speaker 19 (01:26:54):
I was like fishing and like crafting dishes and stuff
like that. Like there wasn't even anything. It was stuff
I should have been doing around my house. I was
just doing in Zelda for four and a half hours.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
Well, you know how like when teams go to another
city that like the opposing fans will play pranks like
you know, pull the fire alarm and stuff like that
to try and disrupt them. The night before the game,
I was hoping that gamers in Pittsburgh were trying to
lure Lamar into an all night video game, because all
night play, yeah, like have.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Some like Call of Duty tournament.

Speaker 4 (01:27:25):
It's like, you know this underground thing like, well, Lamar, you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
Probably couldn't even compete in this, And he's like.

Speaker 4 (01:27:31):
Let me try, Yeah, let me try, and then just
keep them up all night long and maybe it would
be the priest. You did it too, Maximilian Maxwell, Father, Max,
I guess is what he goes by? Spray in that
holy water spring. It sounds like you looked at his
legs like yeah, yeah, you flicking the holy water flicking
sounds like what do you do?

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
Broadcasting? Broadcasting?

Speaker 19 (01:27:53):
Broadcasting, Little spider man move there to tell you whitch?

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
I don't know. Yeah, I guess just blessing, just blessedsing.
It's just bless blessing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:08):
Yeah, bless that end zone and holy cow, did it
payoff last night? God wanted the Steelers to win twenty six,
twenty four and now it's Monday Night, eight fifteen kickoff
here on DVE a home playoff game for Mike Tomlin
and Aaron Rodgers. Abby Abby Krisner with your news right now.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
What's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:28:27):
Is this hour brought to you by wind Donation. Cloudy
today with a high of forty seven. The thirty first
Critics Choice Awards were last night in Santa Monica, celebrating
the year's best in movies and TV. Obviously, our attention
was elsewhere, so I'm going to catch you up on this.

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
But Chelsea Handler was the host of.

Speaker 6 (01:28:45):
The ceremony and one battle after another one Best Picture
and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson.

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
Love that movie, Absolutely love that movie. That's what DiCaprio. Yes, yeah,
I haven't seen it. It's really it's a it's a
great sort of thriller, action character movie.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
It's it's brilliant. The acting is amazing.

Speaker 19 (01:29:08):
And I gotta tell you watching Leo DiCaprio be in
public makes me nervous for him. I feel like he's
somehow on the verge of getting canceled for some reason.
Like I feel like Hollywood's like everyone's about to turn
on him, like I if I was his age, and
I just be like, just stay home, don't go don't
go out anywhere people. People don't like you anymore for
some reason. Dude, that's been his entire career has been that.

(01:29:29):
And he took some strays at the award last night
from Chelsea Handler.

Speaker 6 (01:29:34):
She hit him up like something about like getting to
the show, like she was surprised he made it because
she thought he'd be on a boat somewhere.

Speaker 11 (01:29:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
I thought it was pretty tame. I didn't.

Speaker 19 (01:29:42):
I thought she was gonna nail him, but I didn't.
I saw some of that, but it wasn't that bad.

Speaker 6 (01:29:47):
She did something or he did something rather where he
was doing like an actor's on Actors thing with Jennifer Lawrence,
and it was weird because he was so muted and
it like with monosyllabic. Yeah, and she's obviously not a
muted personality. And I saw somebody do like a little
piece on that saying that he knows she knows all

(01:30:11):
about him, and that's why he was so muted, like
he was on the defense like she was going to
expose him because.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
She just runs her mouth so much.

Speaker 4 (01:30:20):
She blurts.

Speaker 5 (01:30:21):
She blurts. She's a blurterer in that way.

Speaker 6 (01:30:24):
But it's kind of to your point, like where there's
something about him that it just seems like.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
Something could drop at any time.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
Yeah, it's it's precarious whatever it is.

Speaker 5 (01:30:35):
And again we know nothing, but it's just there.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
It's it's just because he always hangs out with like
he trades in his girlfriends.

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
Tread wears out, he gets a whole new one.

Speaker 6 (01:30:47):
Right, And I do want to watch one battle after
another because you've told me how great it is. And
I always tell you that my when I'm like deciding
what to watch, I'm always trying to check in with
my pre flight checklist of how stressed I am, because
I know that it's it's kind of stressful, but it
looks very funny to me as well.

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
DiCaprio is really good in it because he's just like
you know, a he's an on the lamb revolutionary who
has decided to self medicate by being stoned twenty four
hours a day, and so his reasoning rationale and you know,
processing of information is slowed considerably and he's on the
run at the same time, and just the whole underground

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network that helps him. Benicio del Toro is hilarious, and
you know, Stephen j Lockjaw is the Sean Penn character
that is going to go down in film infamy as
one of the military dictator. He's a just a brutal
villain in that one.

Speaker 6 (01:31:45):
It sounds like Sinners and Frankenstein also scored multiple wins.

Speaker 4 (01:31:50):
Gay Frankenstein.

Speaker 12 (01:31:51):
Gay.

Speaker 5 (01:31:51):
Frankenstein's very gay. It was just like the It was
just overall very colorful. And but Frankenstein can get it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:59):
I don't know, it's like Frannstein hot Frankenstein.

Speaker 26 (01:32:04):
You know Jill Women, Fire Island, more Shack.

Speaker 6 (01:32:18):
Jacob ALORDI did win for Best Supporting Actor for Frankenstein,
and then I also got Best Costume Design and hair
and Makeup, which obviously it would that.

Speaker 5 (01:32:26):
Giermo del Toro again beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
It's really good. I think I'll watch it twice, but
I haven't seen it.

Speaker 19 (01:32:34):
But like I still think Germe Deltour aways associated with
Pan's Labyrinth, which was one of the low key, creepy
awesome movies of like the last twenty five years, And
if it was anything like that, it's probably insane.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
I'm the only person I know who likes Shape of Water.
I liked, Yeah, I mean it was beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
Everybody hated it, well, everybody dogged it because she nails
a fish.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
That would be why to me?

Speaker 19 (01:32:58):
This is exposing that Gear del Toro obviously had his
first sexual experience during the fifties Universal Pictures, Monster movies.
Pretty soon there's gonna be a Dracula who's on like
anabolic steroids and just like washing his cape on his
abs or something.

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:33:15):
Timi, Tagla May and Jesse Buckley took top acting honors
in film and television favorites like The Pit and Adolescents
also not dominated in their categories.

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
So let me go.

Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
I love Jesse Buckley, love her.

Speaker 6 (01:33:30):
She won for Hamnet, that which was uh John told
us about it. I can't remember. It's like some kind
of spoof on Hamlet.

Speaker 19 (01:33:37):
No, it's Hamnet was what Hamlet was written. Hamnet was
Shakespeare's actual son who died, and Hamlet was based the play.
Hamlet was sort of an ode to his Probably I
haven't seen the movie, but I know the backstory is like,
who wants to see that?

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
That's depressing from start.

Speaker 4 (01:33:55):
To finish, Like I know August Wilson did a follow
up on that Chipped Hamnet, which good one.

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
I like that one.

Speaker 6 (01:34:02):
Uh they shallow man got uh the nod for Marty Supreme,
which didn't do that great at the box.

Speaker 19 (01:34:07):
This is another one that I feel like Hollywood's about
the tip tip over and and and you're not gonna
hear from him for like eight years.

Speaker 4 (01:34:14):
It's true, not that you won't hear from him, but uh,
we've had enough. He kind of wore out as well.
You gotta dial back. The Kylie Jenner thing is puts
it over the top in terms of like, don't have
an annoying over exposure.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
Yeah, the p R for.

Speaker 6 (01:34:32):
Marty Supreme was hilarious and uh but never ending meta
in its presentation, and it seemed actually like really really funny,
but I just you know, it didn't seem to translate
for people who want to go see a movie about
Ping Pong Ping Pong. But then he's doing like a

(01:34:53):
rap career two. But to me, I personally, the thing
that's the most damning is the general relationship hip.

Speaker 19 (01:35:00):
It's like this affiliate he got sucked into the vacuum
and now he's part of the borg.

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
Basically is that what's.

Speaker 5 (01:35:07):
It's a weird it's just a weird dynamic.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
You don't think that hard top. Yeah, but he's hard
to root for. He's hard to're in that billionaire class.
It's just hard to root for those people.

Speaker 6 (01:35:19):
I guess dynamic of being like I'm such a like
you know, true artist, and I will do anything.

Speaker 19 (01:35:24):
For my craft and likes you birthday party doesn't bode
well for your for your public stand.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
When Michael Shannon was in the Oscar nominated Shape of Water,
he watched the Oscars at a bar in Chicago by himself,
drinking old style.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
So like, those are the guys that you want to
root for.

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
Tanty Shallomey wearing you know, the height of fashion with
his billionaire girlfriend. It's not like, oh I like that guy.
Like even Brad Pitt was smart enough to kind of
lay low for a while.

Speaker 6 (01:35:53):
Uh, let's go to television here, best drama series The
Pits and No Wiley got Best.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
Love the Pit. Can't wait for the new Pit, Bring
me more Pit.

Speaker 19 (01:36:03):
So my wife started watching it and she's gotten down
into I can't stomach it, like it's just too like
it's really too graphic for me, like showing people with
compound fractures.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
Get it is that all night. I can't do it.

Speaker 19 (01:36:16):
But she said, She's like, what the appeal and you
guys might have talked about this is that they're calling
it competency porn, where basically the world is in such
seeming shambles that seeing a show that is that reflective
of who's out there being actually keeping the world together
actually is a despite the graphicness, is like this sort

(01:36:37):
of relieving thing. It's like, oh my god, there's professionals
and there's adults in the room, and there's people who
can handle intense situations and actually get through those things.

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
Doesn't that make me feel good?

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
That element of it is something that I didn't I
couldn't articulate, but now that you say it, absolutely that's
part of what draws me to it.

Speaker 19 (01:36:56):
It's like watching Apollo, Remember what Apollo thirteen and you
see all the NASA guys like throw like a shoe
box and like a piece of nylon stocking on the
table and be like, we need to make sure how
this thing can filter oxygen, and then they do it
and you're like, oh my god, there's people out there
that can.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
Do this stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Yeah, But I also like the fact that they mangle
all the Pittsburgh references in the first season and uh
uh like stuff like that I noticed is like when
the guy comes in with a stomach ache and he's like, well,
the stomach ache, and they're like, oh, what's wrong, and
he's like, I took the way to Sullivan's Steakhouse last
night and anyways, yeah, I think I went a little overboard,
and they're like, Okay, you're gonna be fine. And then
then he dies, right, and then Sullivan's closed two months

(01:37:32):
after that episode, and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
Hey, I think they got a gride. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:37:38):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 (01:37:41):
There's plenty of stuff like that you got on little
dumb rabbit holes of when they filmed it and what's
going on. Just the fact that they don't the whole
woolies thing. And then when they make the bet on
the guys like they steal the ambulance and they're all
betting on where it's gonna end up, and it's out
in Monroeville and somebody's like, I got one hundred dollars
on that ended up in Beaver County. I'm like, guys,
why don't you guys going nowhere near their opposite side,

(01:38:03):
opposite side, But it is the competency im portant thing
is interesting. It is there are many little subplots in
there where they are battling ignorance, and those are gratifying
to see, to see them overcome.

Speaker 27 (01:38:20):
I had not heard of this show before you mentioned it.
Pluribus clurabus man. I just started this weekend. Yeah, Jacob,
I got to tell you, I usually don't go for
shows like this. I absolutely loved it right away.

Speaker 4 (01:38:34):
I think that it is as interesting of an idea
for a television show as I've seen in a long time.
The acting is great, and it's Vince Gilligan. I mean,
it's Better Call Saul Breaking Bad. And Rhea Seahorn from
Better Call Saul is the star of this one.

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
She got Best Actress.

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
Well so far, I'm like four episodes in and I
really like it. But I'm wondering because I know it
got renewed, Like where does this story go? Because it
looks like it's something that should be resolved in a season.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
What's this? Is this on Apple? What's this song?

Speaker 21 (01:39:02):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
Do you not have the Apple?

Speaker 21 (01:39:04):
I don't have.

Speaker 19 (01:39:04):
That's like one of the I don't have PARAMOUNTA, and
I don't have Apple. I have all the rest.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
Yeah, I don't have Paramount either. Landman a Landman for you.
You want to see Billy Bob's ding Dong, No I do,
but I heard.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
I feel like I heard that songwhere no he did,
and it's getting ridiculed. His getting just as ding Dong.
I mean I had a cameo.

Speaker 5 (01:39:30):
I didn't talk like the Tommy Lee one and that
one Tommy Pam Anderson.

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
I want to go out there and drill a little
more oil and stop trying to drill all these ladies.
Stop telling me what to do. A little guy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:42):
Uh Tyler Sheridan stuff does not interest me at all,
none of it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
I just get into Yellowstone.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
I can't get into I think there's one or two
movies he wrote that I might have been okay with,
but like the Latest Sie, it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:39:54):
Like I'm not immune to it because I don't.

Speaker 19 (01:39:56):
I don't he didn't write Friday Night Lights, but I
feel like those shows kind of have that type of
Friday Night Lights that's like the tone. Great show, but
I just think I missed the train. And then people
were dressing up as characters from Yellowstone and I didn't.
I wasn't on board with it. I was in there
like I'm Janice Boppenspiel or whoever that I don't even
know the names are, and I was like, I don't

(01:40:17):
like this, and because I don't know about it, it's stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:40:22):
I won't say it's stupid, but because I don't know
about it, I don't care and I'm just not It's
not one that I'm like, oh, I gotta watch that,
But Pluribus was one I was interested in in boy,
it sucked me in right away. I mean the thing
I like about it In some of the other knocks
on Vince Gilligan, particularly like in Better Call Saul Is,
it gets right to it and there's not these huge

(01:40:45):
chunks of what am I watching? I mean that the
plot just it hits the ground running and you resolve
a lot of questions right away and moves on to
the next thing.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
It moves pretty quickly.

Speaker 6 (01:40:57):
I know we talked about Adolescens Lot last year and
it would you ever watch that again?

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
It is like, I must see incredible acting mini series
and I would never go back and watch it again
because it is heartbreaking.

Speaker 19 (01:41:13):
If you have, like any kids that are in elementary school.
I wouldn't even watch it for kids are in middle
school because it's like too late.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
Yeah, you know, too late for that.

Speaker 19 (01:41:23):
You gotta you gotta get if you're if your kids
are in elementary school, watch it as a cautionary tale.

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
Very much.

Speaker 5 (01:41:28):
That got Best Limited Series.

Speaker 6 (01:41:30):
I just recommended it to somebody and was apologizing as.

Speaker 5 (01:41:34):
I was recommending it. I'm like, I'm really really sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:41:36):
Like, the camera work is phenomenal, the acting is amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
You're going to be really upset when you watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
You should watch it.

Speaker 19 (01:41:44):
My young or my older son. My wife and I
were talking about and saying, oh, yeah, that should that
did deserve to win a lot of awards.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
He goes, what's that about? And I go, just nothing, Yeah,
never mind.

Speaker 19 (01:41:54):
Yeah, I can't even I can't even synopsize the plot
even a remote.

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
Its even dumbed down for you without it being traumatizing.

Speaker 6 (01:42:04):
Other things that got love severance The Studio Squid Game
got some love. The SNL fifty anniversary special got some
as well as last week Tonight with John Oliver. But
this is like always kind of like a nice little
appetizer for awards season. Here Nikki Glazer is gonna host
the Golden Globes, which will be on January the eleventh.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
And speaking of the SNL fiftieth, I'm the only one
who watched the Chevy Chase. I didn't watch it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:29):
I watch it today. Yeah, I want to try to
watch it today.

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
I'm trying to figure out where to grab it because
you said it was like sin adjacent.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Yeah, it's on Hulu Plus. Oh yeah, I have Hulu.

Speaker 5 (01:42:40):
All right, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (01:42:41):
But if you just I have comcasts and I just
searched it on comcasts and see and streamed it through
through the cable provider. Yeah, we'll talk about that tomorrow.
It's it's definitely interesting. I knew all of the stories
about Chevy. I was under no delusions that it was
not a surprise to me that he was difficult. Clearly
those stories are legendary. But boy, when you see two

(01:43:03):
hours of it and his inability to refute any of
it successfully or convincingly, and there's a clip that's going
around where he is nasty to the interviewer.

Speaker 5 (01:43:18):
That's what I saw.

Speaker 4 (01:43:19):
When you watch that, that tells you all you need
to know, because that, to me is like, oh, this
is the most easily diagnosed person that you would ever see.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
He's so clearly insecure, and he's so clearly.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
Unsure of whether or not he is worthy of the
respect that he's gotten. If he still has a fastball,
is everyone coming at him with knives? He's on the defensive.
It's like he is a wounded animal. And a lot
of it's his own doing. And you see his origin
story and then you learn why. But at some point,

(01:43:56):
you know, you got to be responsible for kind of
cleaning up the mess were handed, and I think it
took him a long time to get there.

Speaker 19 (01:44:03):
I feel like, if you're an insecure person, how in
God's name could you ever host a late night talk show?
I feel that was a disaster, I know, like, but
the fact that he even agreed to that, like, if
you're insecure, like I feel like you'd run for the
hills on something like that. Yeah, no, well you got
cocaine then, oh well that was so he had all
the confidence in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
He thought he could do anything, but he was making
a lot of bad decisions.

Speaker 4 (01:44:27):
Anyways, if you're completely unfamiliar with the Chevy Chase story,
don't watch it because it will ruin movies for you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
You know you'll be like, oh Man Fletcher match really
this awful?

Speaker 21 (01:44:39):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:44:40):
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Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
I mean it had everything last night.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
Aaron Rodgers leading the team down the field for the
game winning touchdown.

Speaker 1 (01:44:57):
Get to snap, four man rush coming Rogers back lofting lock.

Speaker 18 (01:45:00):
Hasn't been wide open time touchdown Pittsburgh Steelers good fifty
five second.

Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
Remaining too much time lot time on the clock there,
and Lamar would need to convert a fourth and seven
in order to keep that game going.

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
A twenty eight yard reception by Isaiah likelist.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
Yeah back the past, 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. Tremendous catch, a twenty eight yard pickup.
Only twelve second remain here at Akrasser.

Speaker 4 (01:45:42):
Stadium, Racus Akroscher Stadium crowd deflated on that fourth and
seven conversion.

Speaker 19 (01:45:49):
Isaiah likely was about to write his redemption story right
there in that there's like nine different chapters of books
in that fourth in that fourth quarter, and that was
going to be one of them.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Isaiah likely, Oh was that a catch? How about that?
How about that was a catch? And then Tyler looped.

Speaker 1 (01:46:07):
Here's the snap, here's the hole, here's the boot by
loop and that kick.

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Speaker 3 (01:47:19):
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Speaker 4 (01:47:28):
You feel like the Steelers stole that game? No either
do I It's fair are people saying that NFL.

Speaker 15 (01:47:35):
I was having a chat with somebody leaving last night
at two am, one of the other media guys, and
he said, boy, they're so lucky. I'm like, why because
Boltimore missed the kick, Pittsburgh missed the kick, it would
have only been a time field goalf Boswell nee missed
the kick.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
Does that mean Baltimore would have been lucky? Right? Whin?

Speaker 15 (01:47:55):
Or you lose man luck? Don't play into it. Yeah,
stuff happens either overcoming.

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
Or Here's what I was impressed by.

Speaker 4 (01:48:03):
I thought the Steelers played with more heart last night
than I've seen them play in the last couple of years,
given all that was on the line there, the enormity
of that situation and the way it started, which was
hot knife through butter Derrick Henry is often running again,
and for them.

Speaker 15 (01:48:23):
To forty seven yards on the first play of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:48:26):
Yes, it was probably not what they were envision right,
and then Zay Flowers got knocked for a kind of
a BS penalty there. But rebounding from that mic and
making adjustments or playing a position, being gaps on whatever
you want to say, that Steelers defense stiffened up big time.

(01:48:48):
Lamar had to make some big time plays in that
game in order to keep it close. The Steelers, if
they convert a couple of different times there, could have
ran away with that game well.

Speaker 15 (01:48:59):
And they also they had to commit a lot of
resources and schematics to keeping Henry contain.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
Which is which enabled de lamartin. They had to big place.

Speaker 15 (01:49:07):
You know, one of the things that I hurt people
bitching about after the Cleveland game, why are you throwing
the Scottie Miller in the end zone on fourth and
one from the twenty one? Because sometimes when it's hard
to score, and the Cleveland defense is hard to score against,
sometimes you have to go for it when they're thinking

(01:49:29):
you're going to just try to get the first down,
because a lot of times defense is a load up.
They don't want you to get the first down, so
they give you one on one and they give you
an opening, and you look at the way that game
played out last night, particularly from the Ravens standpoint. Jackson's
first touchdown passes the night was fourth and three from
the Pittsburgh thirty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
Yeah, they went for the downs and they hit it.

Speaker 4 (01:49:51):
Subsequent plays in that game, Steelers all out blitzed on
that one.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:49:58):
Third and one from the Baltimore thirty six. That was
the sixty four yard at a Flowers. They fake a
pitch to Henry.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
I mean you're going to react to that.

Speaker 21 (01:50:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:50:09):
The one that Highsmith missed the sack on was I
think I got this in the wrong order. Third and
one was the one that Heighsmith missed a sack on.
I think third and ten. Rogers goes deep to Calvin
Austin third and ten, okay, and they need a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (01:50:26):
At this point late in the game, Baltimore's playing the sticks.
The guy the quarterback jumped the first move because that's
where he thought.

Speaker 3 (01:50:34):
The ball was going. So you got to turn it
up and go.

Speaker 15 (01:50:37):
I mean, people say, why are you throwing the Scotty
Miller in that cleve because he's on the field, and
the reason they had scantling and Scotty Miller.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
They they knew they were deficient receiver. They got Scanton.

Speaker 15 (01:50:49):
Miller was on the team last year, they got Scantling,
and they got feeling because they wanted to keep their
draft picks to draft a quarterback this year.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
You can't have everything.

Speaker 15 (01:51:02):
Yeah, So they did the best they could with adding
to receiver but still keeping the big picture in mind.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Scaling is just man,
is he last night at worked that the Houston thing
is going to be a total different ball game.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
I'll tell you what more.

Speaker 4 (01:51:19):
Scaling, he converted third down last night on a ball
that he bobbled and almost gave up for an interception
that would have been an absolute.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
I was glad that they.

Speaker 19 (01:51:34):
Got up and and hiked the ball because I was like,
I feel like that's one of those ones if you
look at.

Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
It long enough, that might not have even been a catch. Yeah,
the the last playoff also, I also thought he got out.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
Of bounds when we had to use our timeouts, and
they said I thought. I thought I wanted to see
that again. They didn't show it again.

Speaker 3 (01:51:51):
They said.

Speaker 19 (01:51:51):
I think they said he he stopped moving forward inbounds
and that's when the play was dead and then he'll.

Speaker 4 (01:51:56):
Bun But isn't he efforting to get out of bounds?
Which you can't go backwards the clock still runs. You're
not allowed to run backwards. You have to be going forward.
And they made that call a couple of times that uh, yeah,
feeling got it to you. The bomb too likely. That
almost lost the game for the Steelers. That was fourth
and seven and they're they're on the precipice of field

(01:52:18):
goal range there, TJ.

Speaker 3 (01:52:19):
Watt was that close?

Speaker 4 (01:52:20):
Yeah, but no Cam Hayward, no place sticks there, No
Cam Hayward, no Nate Herbing on that play, they.

Speaker 15 (01:52:27):
Were subthering religious Yeah, Logan le made a big place
all night. I mean they that's the way they played it.

Speaker 4 (01:52:34):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:52:34):
Guys come out when they think they're gassed. Found a
way to get it done. Uh somehow, some way. And
the Steelers understandably giddy in the wake of Steelers twenty
six Ravens twenty four, including Cam Hayward and Aaron Rodgers,
well mostly Hayward when the two were caught by the

(01:52:56):
NBC cameras in the immediate aftermath.

Speaker 3 (01:52:59):
Right, yes he does he does this.

Speaker 15 (01:53:01):
Now playoff, Gus, what you get DK back, let's go
how about that first one of the first things out
of Hayward's mouth seconds after we're getting DK back.

Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
Well, they're gonna need him against the Texas, no doubt
about it.

Speaker 15 (01:53:17):
I mean, I would not expect the explosiveness you saw
from the Baltimore offense from from Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
No, but they are going to be tough to move
the ball.

Speaker 19 (01:53:27):
Against, let alone scoring Again, what's the wide receiver set
look like with DK back in?

Speaker 4 (01:53:31):
It is?

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
Is Scantling out?

Speaker 4 (01:53:33):
Is?

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
Do we ever see Scotty Miller again?

Speaker 19 (01:53:35):
Now that it's it's gonna be DK, theeling and Calvin Austin,
we think, or like, who's who's our receiver?

Speaker 15 (01:53:41):
Corgner imagine that they would play Theling over Scanting?

Speaker 3 (01:53:46):
Not sure?

Speaker 4 (01:53:47):
Just uh, I don't know Scantling and DK? I mean
Scanlon is? I mean he's taller line of Swede.

Speaker 15 (01:53:55):
Yeah, Stealing has made a career out of making tough
possession extending catches.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
So you slot him, That's what I'd do. Yeah, Auf,
he's got to be an outside guy.

Speaker 15 (01:54:07):
He's got to be might slot Metcalf some too, depending
on they'll try to hunt a matchup.

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
I'm sure I haven't done a deep dive on Houston
yet other than I know they're really good.

Speaker 4 (01:54:17):
Aaron Rodgers did everything he needed to do last night
to bring home a win for the Steelers and send
it to the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:54:23):
The goal all along.

Speaker 4 (01:54:24):
You think he should be the quarterback next year? Randy,
I mean yeah, I like it me too, if you
give him another receiver. The offensive line got better and
better this year, and credit to Pat Meyer, who I
was always bitching about those guys who comported themselves nicely,
particularly since Proderick Jones went out and Dylan Cook has

(01:54:47):
been a revelation as they say, yeah he has, but
not having Darnell Washington really made it a lot more
difficult for Arthur Smith to do the things he really
likes to do.

Speaker 15 (01:54:57):
It did, but getting Isaac saym All back was so
critical because that puts Spencer Anderson back in the seventy
four is eligible role, and boy did they lean on
that last night.

Speaker 4 (01:55:07):
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Speaker 16 (01:57:46):
Little tired, but welcome back, Happy new year to you
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Speaker 4 (01:57:51):
Well, glad to be back with that win in a
postseason birth for the Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers.
Let me ask you this, there was a lot of
talk over the last couple of weeks about Mike Tomlin's future.
In any way, shape or form. Did last night's game
determine it, whether through Mike Tomlin's own volition or through
the organization thinking if they couldn't get to the postseason

(01:58:14):
with Aaron Rodgers, it was going to be time for
a change.

Speaker 16 (01:58:18):
Well, let me say this, Randall, to answer your question
in general, No, nothing has changed if they don't get
to the playoffs. Oh, perhaps, like they do every year,
they discuss their future, both with him and about whether
it's him or where they're going, and so that conversation

(01:58:39):
hadn't taken place. But I will also tell you this,
I love when people start saying about well, Mike Tomlin's
you know, considering he might do this, and he might
do that. Well, I'll tell you what, not that I
know everything, because I don't, that's for sure. But being
around Mike Tomlin all the time, I have never, ever,
ever gotten any indication that he is interested in walking

(01:59:01):
away right now, good or bad. And so I love
when that conversation begins. You know, hey, look, anything is possible.
But I have never, in anything my dealings with him,
talking to him, watching him, listening to him talking to
other people, have ever received any indication that he's doing
nothing but staying around and coaching his teeters.

Speaker 3 (01:59:23):
So he's probably not going to be the head coach
of the New York Football Giants.

Speaker 16 (01:59:29):
Yeah, probably a good chance of that, Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:59:32):
Anybody tell Ryan Clark that yet?

Speaker 16 (01:59:35):
Oh is that what Ryan Clarks say?

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
Yeah, that's what he said last week.

Speaker 16 (01:59:39):
Yeah. I try not to listen to some of that
bladder and dribble, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:59:43):
Well, you know, there was some talk that Mike Tomlin
might want to go and do TV for a couple
of years and pull of Sean Payton. You know, just
wait till the uh smoke clears a little bit and
bounce back into the profession.

Speaker 15 (01:59:53):
I'm with Jerry, I've not seen outs of him being
any different, having any less enthusiasm for the job, being defiant.

Speaker 3 (02:00:06):
Committed that he's.

Speaker 16 (02:00:07):
That all the time, and Mike's correct. And to your
point about TV, when or where did you ever hear
Mike Tomlin indicate that he would even be remotely interested
in that fact. But I think the one time somebody
even brought it up, he scoffed at the idea. That's
the last thing really, I think Mike Tomlin would want

(02:00:29):
to do, to be perfectly honest, So I love what
everybody says, Oh, he's going to go into TV. Oh
maybe the TV people might think he'd be great or
want them, and that's fine. I don't think it works
that way. From the other end, I don't see Mike
Tomlin ever thinking he would want to have ever seen
him think I think where he might want to do TV,
never ever ever indicated.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
That at all.

Speaker 4 (02:00:50):
Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers seemed to not be on
the same page a couple of times last night.

Speaker 3 (02:00:55):
Was that solely due to communication issues with his helmet?

Speaker 16 (02:01:00):
Yeah, and that was on the second to the last drive.
His communicator went out in his helmet, And then you saw,
I don't know, I just sorry. Not on TV. Arthur
Smith had a run out on the field like a
high school coach and screened to play to him. So
their issues were only because of the communicator, not because
of anything with them. And I'll tell you what you know,
Mike and I talked about this before the game. To me,

(02:01:21):
one of the most important persons in that game was
going to be Arthur Smith trying to make up for
the losses that they have a personnel. No dk Metcalf,
no Darnet Washington. And I'll tell you what, you got
to give him credit. I mean, especially after that start,
the way that offense rebounded, you know, getting the running
game going, getting the passing game, boy, the passing game
down the field going. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers, you know he

(02:01:44):
had just he doesn't change the play. He just adjusts
maybe some of the routes at the line of scrimmage.
But hey, Arthur Smith knows that. That's why Aaron Rodgers
is the smartest quarterback in the game. He's the best
in the game at the line of scrimmage. And a
lot of their calls are based on a lot allowing
him and actually wanting him to do that, and that's

(02:02:04):
I give a lot of credit to Arthur Smith for
that game yesterday, because that could have easily continued to
go the other way like what we saw in Cleveland
after that first quarter. But you know, from the from
the Randall from the end of the first quarter to
the beginning of the fourth quarter, the steel I think
it was after the end of the first quarter the
Ravens out gained him one hundred and twenty five yards

(02:02:25):
to twenty one. From the end of the first quarter
to the start of the fourth quarter, the Steelers had
outgained them like two hundred and twenty four yards to
fifty four. I mean it just it was a complete reversal.
The credit to the defense, but no, I give a
lot of credit to Arthur Smith and.

Speaker 15 (02:02:41):
Of course a Rod Yeah, I think he was so
upset about the communication thing because, as Rogers said it,
they had the big people and they had Anderson in
and there were very limited options with what they could
do for that. So it wasn't like you could just say, oh, hell,
I couldn't hear it. Let's yeah, I'll do whatever one
of thirty plays at my disposal. Although I will say
there are some people people on the south side. Who

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suspect that there are times when Rogers does the I
can't hear.

Speaker 21 (02:03:04):
Things just right.

Speaker 4 (02:03:07):
What he was twenty is saying, I don't think at
the end of the game, you know, when it's a
critical drive and you need a touchdown. I think that
was a legit technical issue. I mean he took his
helmet off. Yeah, he's just in the huddle just going like,
uh like, I don't know, guys, it's weird. He keeps
telling me do whatever I want. That's just a strange.
It's a weird play call.

Speaker 3 (02:03:27):
But I'm doing all it. All's well, that ends well,
there no doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (02:03:32):
Hu The Steelers get that victory twenty six to twenty.

Speaker 3 (02:03:35):
Four, and now a home game Monday night.

Speaker 4 (02:03:38):
Art Runey's got to be excited about that once again,
having a home playoff game.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
When was the last home playoff game we had? Is
it the Browns game twenty.

Speaker 21 (02:03:49):
One, twenty eight?

Speaker 16 (02:03:50):
Nothing after the first quarter?

Speaker 3 (02:03:52):
Yeah, Well, let's hope they don't repeat that one.

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Speaker 3 (02:04:09):
Jerry d Thanks as always, buddy.

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Speaker 1 (02:04:48):
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Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
You're Pittsburgh Steelers see North Champions.

Speaker 19 (02:05:07):
The author of I Love Max's response, he was slapping
your hand.

Speaker 3 (02:05:14):
You could hear the meat hitting meat on that phone,
you know what I mean? I could.

Speaker 30 (02:05:19):
I could hear the god bushy, I could hear the
bedlam kind of going on around me. But I didn't
look I mean, I have to watch it's going out
in the field, So yeah, I didn't look over, but
I heard I heard the celebration through my headsets.

Speaker 3 (02:05:30):
That's the first time you've heard that call replay. Yeah, yeah,
that was it.

Speaker 4 (02:05:33):
I mean, you nailed the essence of it there, King
or the play before that, well, two plays before that.

Speaker 3 (02:05:41):
The fourth down conversion, my lord.

Speaker 4 (02:05:44):
One play that we're not talking about is the play
before that where Nate Herbig had Lamar Jackson in his
grasp for a sac that would have taken them back
to the like forty yard line and it would have
been four and forever, and he just missed getting him

(02:06:05):
on the ground. That was one of several times that
the Steelers defense was this close to bringing down Lamar
and then he made a spectacular play. He is, he's
a great player.

Speaker 30 (02:06:17):
He's just you know, I you know, look at at
some point, you know, probably we would have been talking
about the great plays Lamar, mate, because the Steelers dominated
from about midway through the second quarter on.

Speaker 3 (02:06:32):
The Steelers dominated the game, and it was you know,
I think dominated. I think I used it. I think
I used the boxing analogy on the on the air.

Speaker 30 (02:06:40):
You know, you're you're you're landing blow after blow after
blow after blow and then landing a haymaker, you know,
and then you got to get back up again, and
you're landing blow after blow after blow, and you know
you're out pointing him, you know, yeah for the for
the judges, but only one judge.

Speaker 3 (02:06:52):
It's on the scoreboard.

Speaker 30 (02:06:55):
You know, he's a spectacular player, and I thought we
might be talking about his spectacular place because that was
their offense after the first drive. Their offense was Lamar
Jackson making ridiculous Lamar Jackson type plays.

Speaker 4 (02:07:08):
Well, this was the defensive philosophy of the Steelers. Stop
Derrick Henry. Do not let Derrick Henry beat you make
Lamar Jackson be outstanding, make him make big plays. I
cannot tell you how many times I thought he was
dead in the water and he ended up popping out.

(02:07:28):
And the one third down where both Keanu Benton and
high Smith were about to bring him down and instead
Zay Flowers fifty yard touchdown reception.

Speaker 30 (02:07:40):
Yeah, when you think about even on the opening drive,
which was an impressive drive, and the first couple of possessions,
they really got Derrick Henry going, you know, yeah, I
mean he looked. You know, I'm sure a lot of
Steelers fans are thinking, oh, you know, we've seen we've
seen this movie Scrimmage, right, Yeah, we've seen this before
and that was called back a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:07:58):
But you know, when you think about it, it's a
fourth down.

Speaker 30 (02:08:02):
Long throw, the long throw to Flowers and then you know,
another long a prayer up to Isaiah likely.

Speaker 3 (02:08:10):
I mean, they made four big plays.

Speaker 30 (02:08:13):
Really, that's what they did, right, I mean that was
even the first touchdown was a fourth.

Speaker 3 (02:08:17):
Down throw right exactly exactly at fourth and four.

Speaker 30 (02:08:21):
I think it wasn't even fourth And you know, I
thought on third down they might run it and you know,
get themselves into fourth and closer, and they didn't do it.
And you know, it's part when I when I see
a game like this too, I think, and you know,
and we'll talk about the playoffs. I'm sure coming up.
We want to enjoy this one. But I just all

(02:08:44):
season long, and I think I've said it to you guys,
I've just felt like there's been more there on this team.
There's more there, and even last night and even last week,
I mean, think about think about in this game, if
you convert a fourth down, like you know, the students
went fourth and fourth down, didn't get it on the
on the early on in the game, they had the
ball on the last play of the first half and

(02:09:06):
don't score little moments. You know that one of these
days and hopefully it's Monday night, they're gonna play. Those
things aren't gonna happen. It's all gonna happen your way,
and you're gonna you're gonna win and beat a good
team like they did with Detroit and other teams.

Speaker 3 (02:09:21):
You know, they've had some good wins.

Speaker 30 (02:09:22):
But you know, I just I thought they were the
I thought they were the better team without question last night,
and it took a miss field.

Speaker 3 (02:09:29):
Goal to win it. So, yeah, it shouldn't have been
as close as it was. Cam Hayward had maybe his
best game of the year.

Speaker 11 (02:09:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:09:38):
There's a lot of Steeler fans who give him flack
because of the contract situation. Uh, and then unfairly dragged
his brother into the mix, and Connor was getting dragged
and Cam and Connor both.

Speaker 3 (02:09:51):
Had to address it at one point.

Speaker 21 (02:09:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:09:54):
All of that stuff I thought was just a bad
look on Steeler fans.

Speaker 4 (02:09:57):
I understand if you had an issue with his contract
demandson that I get that, but to hold it over
to the point where you're just actively like trashing the guy,
which is mostly just social media garbage.

Speaker 3 (02:10:10):
It's irrefutable how good he has been.

Speaker 4 (02:10:12):
Yeah, and how good and how important that performance was
from Cam Hayward last night. You know, I have to
tell you that you're telling me that I had no
idea Connor and Camp had to address anything.

Speaker 3 (02:10:23):
Yeah, Like, I don't pay anyten. I literally don't. I
don't pay I don't pay any attention to to what
has Connor Hayward done except big play after big play.

Speaker 30 (02:10:32):
Yeah, I mean, and to the point too that I
didn't even know Lamar was getting grief. He was getting
a lot of grief in Baltimore, So I just did
I just don't pay any I don't. I mean, my
job is to call the game. That's my job.

Speaker 4 (02:10:45):
I think Connor Hayward is.

Speaker 30 (02:10:48):
He's the kind of guy that you know, Look, look, man, everybody,
the more you watch him, the more you should appreciate him.
Making tackles on special teams, running the you know, the
the Star City Shove, you know, be able to do
something in the passing game. And think about you going
there with two running backs. You know, if somebody gets hurt,
guess who your next running back is. It's it's him.
It's Connor Hayward. Yeah, he's a right they line him

(02:11:11):
up at fullback. I mean, he's just a He's the
kind of guy that everybody on their team would have
liked because the one thing too about him and this
sounds like I'm damning with faint praise, but you know,
he's going to do what he's supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (02:11:22):
Yeah, and he's also going to do it pretty well.

Speaker 30 (02:11:23):
As for Cam, you know, I thought Cam's season was
more solid than spectacular. I guess his PFF ratings have
been off the charts all season.

Speaker 4 (02:11:33):
He led all interior defensive linemen in and plays from scrimmage.

Speaker 3 (02:11:38):
Yeah, and the last maybe yeah crazy.

Speaker 30 (02:11:42):
So I've thought like he's been solid, you know, solid
season and maybe I'm maybe I'm underestimating, but the last
like five games of the season, he has dominated, I
mean dominated the game. You look at him and you're like, man,
what's that bus gonna look like in Canton? Then when
he's playing like he's just he's just so. He was
so dominant, so disruptive. I thought keanum Benton played a

(02:12:05):
great game. I thought he was at his best game
of the year. He was, he was tremendous. You know,
look this this defense, uh, this defense has got They
gave up one drive at the beginning of the game,
and then they gave up three or four long plays
you know on possession down. Hey, they count too, I mean,
you know, those big plays count too. And you know

(02:12:27):
that's the thing too, Like, you know, I was discussing
this with you know, my son and I were chatting
as I was driving home last night, and you know,
and this is the nature of fandom, right, Like Jalen
Warren gets that little you know, slip pass. I can't
remember the slip pass or a run and he's just
crashing off of people and banging through and I love
Jalen hornon man and he gets like twenty yards or something,

(02:12:48):
and we're like, way to go, Jailen.

Speaker 16 (02:12:49):
You know.

Speaker 30 (02:12:51):
But you know, you know in Baltimore they're saying Hamilton's
got to make that tackle, miss that, you know what
I mean, It's just the way it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:58):
Goes, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:12:58):
Well, that's why I wish they would have run the
ball twice on the goal line and the first half
instead of doing what they did. Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (02:13:06):
You know, look, so so a couple of things you
can't run the ball enough to make me happy. Yeah,
I'm making man.

Speaker 30 (02:13:13):
I love I think I think Jalen Warren and Game well,
you know, John Harbo was talking about it this week.
He's like, they are upper echelon backs. These guys are
upper echelon running backs. I'd like to see them get
the ball more. But I mean we're seeing you know,
think about we're seeing Aaron Rodgers at forty two. Wouldn't
this have been fun to see him at like twenty

(02:13:34):
eight and see I mean in his absolute prime. I
mean he's just you know, he's and he was his
press conference last name. He's like, yeah, back to you know,
I talked about this with Pat and in in uh
you know, Latrobe, and yeah, we you know, I was
talking to I took a peek on the backside. The
guy slipped, so I threw it to Austin.

Speaker 3 (02:13:52):
I mean, who does that?

Speaker 11 (02:13:53):
Man?

Speaker 3 (02:13:53):
I mean, he's just you think.

Speaker 19 (02:13:54):
At twenty eight he would have been that savvy to
make those plays like he's so cerebral seemingly now that
it makes up for it.

Speaker 30 (02:14:01):
Yeah, he's he's uh you know, and listen, we're seeing
he lives by the sword and dies by it.

Speaker 3 (02:14:07):
Though too.

Speaker 30 (02:14:07):
There's sometimes he's too clever by for sure. I thought
last week against Cleveland, they should have run the ball more.
A lot of sideways passes, a lot of the little
pop now passes, and you know, I thought the running
game was really effective in Cleveland. You know, he said
after the game he didn't think it was, and I thought, well,
they had one hundred and thirty one yards and they
you know, I thought it was affected and they should

(02:14:28):
have run the ball more. But you know, the other
thing too is what you know, people were talking about,
what's your confidence level going in this game? Well, Aaron
Rodgers did. The first and first words out of his
mouth last week was I didn't play a good game.
Like that's not going to happen twice in a row.

Speaker 4 (02:14:42):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:14:42):
It just started out that way there. I thought. I
thought he had a not great first half, and then
it clicked.

Speaker 30 (02:14:49):
Yeah, it looked like it looked a little like a
continuation of yes, of what we saw in Cleveland. The
other thing was, and it'll be nice to have DK
Metcalp back. There weren't a lot of open eyes, you know.
I mean there were some sequences where it's like he
is throwing the ball into even.

Speaker 4 (02:15:05):
More reasons, even more reason to focus on the run
as far as I mean, look, I think I think
those guys are two of your premier playmakers.

Speaker 3 (02:15:13):
I'd love to see him get the ball more.

Speaker 4 (02:15:15):
But it's just it's about how about from those two, Oh,
they're just there's they're really really good players. Look, we
knew Jalen warm was a really good player, right, I
mean the whole time. It's like the backup quarterback, right,
you know, the whole time Nagi was here, Everyone's like,
we need more Jalen Warren, you know. And there were
our buddy Matt Williamson had all these stats about how

(02:15:36):
a lead he was at certain things, the best in
the league at certain things, Jaleen Warren. And we're seeing
now and then you know, well he's not a big guy,
and we're seeing now that he can carry the load, right,
he can carry the load. I think the the revelation
has been Kenneth Gainwell, you know, like, I mean, who
knew he was this good? Because he never got the opportunity.

Speaker 30 (02:15:55):
You know, you talk about a great offseason signing, Uh,
Kenny Gainwell has been tremendous. And they're both they're one
one a and you know the other thing too, you know,
and Aaron Rodgers mentioned this last night about Pat Fryarmuth
like leaning into the collective, right, not grumbling. I mean, listen,
man steel an Asian has been grumbling? Why is this
guy not getting the ball? More right said he hasn't

(02:16:17):
been grumbling at all. Gainwell and Warren, I mean they
are tight, man, and they are super supportive of each other.
Neither one of them saying, man, I should be getting
more touches that paint and game Maybe I saw someone
who's calling them that.

Speaker 3 (02:16:31):
Yes, right, I like it.

Speaker 30 (02:16:32):
I mean they're they're you know, they're total team players
and they're on top of on top of them being
terrific players.

Speaker 4 (02:16:39):
Kenneth Gainwell with a big touchdown three forty nine in
the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 (02:16:44):
Just get to snap, We'll.

Speaker 31 (02:16:45):
Get the game well sweeping right and game well Pittsburgh
Steelers touchdown with three forty nine remaining in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (02:16:55):
He sweeps around right hand, touchs inside a blocker and
score a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (02:17:00):
Steelers won of twenty to seventeen with that game Well
touchdown three minutes forty nine seconds left on the clock,
and that's when Lamar ended up hitting Zay Flowers.

Speaker 30 (02:17:11):
On the sixty four yarder. They say, like, was that
one of like eighteen scores in the last four minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:17:16):
Yeah, that's what it felt like. One of the most
exciting fourth quarters I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (02:17:20):
Uh. And at that point I thought, Kanger, you know what,
this is gonna work to our advantage that they scored quickly.
You know, I was thinking, well, maybe if we could
stop him and get the ball back and you know,
kick a field goal or something. When they scored, I thought, Okay,
this is Aaron Rodgers with two twenty or whatever it
was left.

Speaker 3 (02:17:42):
Yeah, two twenty.

Speaker 4 (02:17:44):
He should be able to leave this clock right now
and take him right down. It didn't matter that we
didn't have any timeouts left. This is gonna work out
great for us.

Speaker 11 (02:17:52):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:17:53):
They scored maybe a little too quick fifty five seconds left.

Speaker 30 (02:17:57):
Well, listen, man, when it was third and ten, I
wasn't thinking they could score. They could score too quickly.
I wanted him to score.

Speaker 3 (02:18:04):
Man.

Speaker 19 (02:18:04):
You know that was the Scantlon first down, right, the
one where he bobbled it. No, I think he's talking
about that, the Austin touchdown. Yeah, oh oh oh, I
think that was a third and ten.

Speaker 21 (02:18:13):
Was was it really?

Speaker 3 (02:18:13):
I think so?

Speaker 19 (02:18:14):
But also, Randy, you were talking about earlier about the
clock management seemed to work well, I see, I don't know.
I remember at some point in the fourth quarter, maybe
was that after the last score, I'm looking at us,
we have zero timeouts left and they have three, and
I was like, oh crap, Like that's not boting well
for anything.

Speaker 4 (02:18:30):
No, I mean, you know, everybody when he took that
third time out, two of them on the same drive
and exhausted their last two and I think the last
one or if not both of them were due to
the communication issues in the helmet there. You just thought, now,
this is the kind of thing that bites you in
the ascid the game, right, if you're like a missed
extra pointer in the first half. Those things always come

(02:18:52):
back to haunt you. But luckily for the Steelers it didn't.
And then they would suffer the misted extra point, right,
and that didn't come back to haunt them. I think
if anything like it, weirdly might have put a little
more pressure on the kid on loop because now it
was a game winner. Yeah, and that sounds silly, harp,

(02:19:17):
but the fact that it went from sending it to
ot versus. It's all on the line here. You know,
if you miss it to tie it, you lose also,
But I don't know. It might be just a weird
sleep deprive theory that I have.

Speaker 19 (02:19:30):
Harbaugh also getting some crap online for just kneeling it
at like with the second to last play of the
game instead of trying to get an extra two to
three yards with Henry Sure, I don't know if that
would have made I mean, obviously with that kick it
wouldn't have made a difference, I don't think.

Speaker 4 (02:19:44):
But well, no, Jeff, after forty yards the percentages at
Hideen's field go down precipitously. If he uses that twelve
seconds to just try and get three yards ahead and
started instead of taking a two yard loss, the percentage
on makeback kick goes up considerably.

Speaker 3 (02:20:02):
Heinsfield. Yeah, whatever, whatever, because when do you think of that?

Speaker 4 (02:20:07):
Tell me one of those guys that's ill see you
next year when you think of miss field goal kicks.
I just don't want it to bleed out on me.
I don't want to be sitting there when you think
of miss field goal kicks. Heinz fields one that comes
to the brain, so you know, look, Henry. You know
one of the things that Derek Henry has done over
the course of his career is he's fumbled the ball

(02:20:28):
a few times. He's had like three crucial fumbles. Can
you imagine if they handed it to Henry and he fumbled,
you think hardboard for hearing it.

Speaker 30 (02:20:36):
Then this guy was twenty nine true for twenty nine
under fifty twenty nine for twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (02:20:42):
Yep, I mean oops, I mean he wasn't.

Speaker 30 (02:20:45):
If the Steelers did the same thing and trotted Chris
Boswell out there, I would have no problem.

Speaker 3 (02:20:51):
What did you think about TJ.

Speaker 4 (02:20:53):
Watts return from that lung puncture, which is one of
the more unheard of injuries UH to ever have to
rebound from. Uh did you feel like it gassed him
at all last night or anything?

Speaker 30 (02:21:07):
Hard to say? You know, I thought he played really well.
But you know, again, I don't know what the rotation was.
I know they're you know, moving him in and out
of there. But I thought in his absence, Jack Sawyer
played really well. Look, they've got four really good edge guys,
you know, and I'm gonna I'm counting Sawyer. I mean,
Sawyer's not you know where those guys are yet, but

(02:21:28):
he's a big run stuffing.

Speaker 11 (02:21:30):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:21:32):
I like Jack Sawry, I like his game, but I
mean her big man. Alex Highsmith is just I think
two guys, and I don't.

Speaker 30 (02:21:41):
Want to forget anybody Jalen Ramsey or Patrick Queen or whatever.
The two guys to me that are just standing out
above all others on this defense are Cam Hayward and
Alex Heigsmith. I think high Smith has just been incredible
down the stretch, just phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (02:21:56):
I thought he was phenomenal again last night and washing.

Speaker 4 (02:22:00):
On that one when he got joked by Lamar went
up in the air, Lamar ran past him and he
turned around and still tackled him for a loss.

Speaker 3 (02:22:08):
What's our guy out of Iowa to ninety had a
nice pass?

Speaker 30 (02:22:12):
Yeah, you know those edge guys are really good. And
how nice is it going to be now to get
into the playoffs? Look, you know people will gripe the
next week in the Steelers went a short week for
the Steelers. Mike Tomlinson after the game. Look, I'm glad
we got an extra week to get everybody. Everybody back
and ramped up to full speed. I'm sure TJ. Will
be back, you know, much closer to full speed after

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this week. I mean, he had the incredible you know interception.
I mean, how many guys make that? You know, how
many guys are alerted enough to turn around and catch awareness?

Speaker 4 (02:22:42):
Right? I mean, well, here's what I like about the
last three weeks. From the Detroit game on, it's had
a playoff feel. Last night was a playoff game by
all intents and process. And as annoying as it was
to lose to the Browns and force this must win
game against the Ravens last night, it might have given

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them some high quality playoff reps heading into the postseason,
a little more of an advantage for them in that
regard in terms of the play level, the battle level
that's expected in the postseason. It's not going to take
them by surprise. They just played one you don't want
to win at the Browns. Phone it in for the Ravens.

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They got right to the Texans.

Speaker 3 (02:23:27):
That'd be back. Hey man, you know I wanted him
to beat the Browns, right, I wanted to just.

Speaker 30 (02:23:34):
Yeah, nice easy week, But come on, man, that that
is That is one of the great chapters in one
of the great rivalries in NFL history that it is.
I mean, it was a it was a winner, go
home game. It was a phenomenal game. I mean it
just by the way. The crowd was incredible, absolutely incredible
last night. I mean there was look and I think

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that to your point, like I think after the Buffalo
Law from then on, you know, Okay, so let's say
you beat the Browns and then you know you wouldn't
have had a game like this. But I think this
Stealers are playing about as well as anybody.

Speaker 3 (02:24:10):
And you think about.

Speaker 30 (02:24:10):
Miami came in here. You know, Miami, they were a
team that had to win. They'd won four games in
a row. You pounded them, You pounded the Lions, who
obviously you were a good football team. Who was the
other winning there in my mind is slipping right now?
And then and then you beat the Ravens again, right,
so you've won. You've won four out of your last
five games. The one losses against the Browns, where again

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you were the better football team, you lost the game.
And I still don't think they've played their absolute best
football and I think.

Speaker 3 (02:24:38):
They're on a roll going into the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (02:24:39):
So some AFC North news as we head into the
break here. Kevin Stefanski out as Browns coach. Ah Cleveland
has fired Kevin Stefanski. Not a huge surprise there, boy,
I bet he's relieved. I bet he's relieved that he's

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been relieved.

Speaker 30 (02:25:01):
You know, I don't want to make another man's misery
a part of what we get to witness here in Pittsburgh.
But think about he is a two time coach of
the Year, right, yeah, and look what is his career
record now, I mean, look at the losing records he's had.

Speaker 3 (02:25:17):
And I mean and it's not all him obviously.

Speaker 30 (02:25:19):
I mean, they made a huge mistake with Deshaun Watson
that's hamstrung on the organization and will for another season.

Speaker 3 (02:25:25):
But they just lose.

Speaker 11 (02:25:27):
You know.

Speaker 30 (02:25:28):
Meanwhile, you know, you got Duck Hodge's starting games for you,
and you're winning, and you're getting to the playoffs, and
that should not be you know, look, we all want
and Mike Tomlin immediately talked about this, like you're in
the tournament, Okay, great, you want to win the game.

Speaker 3 (02:25:40):
The standard is the standard. The expectations are the expectations.

Speaker 30 (02:25:44):
But you know the fact that we've had what twenty
two is it now, twenty one twenty two consecutive seasons
in which they haven't had a losing season. That is not,
you know, something that should just be swept aside. Every
year we get to think about, hey man, this game
means something, and maybe we can catch fire and maybe
we can do something.

Speaker 19 (02:26:03):
And you know, this is what bothers me about Steelers
fans is because I think a lot of them are
are my age that live through the Palamalu Porter Roethlisberger
years and expect this level that is basically unattainable. Like
the fact that the fact that all of Pittsburgh right
now is trying to make plans for what their nachos
are gonna be for a playoff game should not be

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lost on anybody that that is a special thing.

Speaker 3 (02:26:25):
There's a bunch of teams that don't have that right now.

Speaker 30 (02:26:27):
And we're gonna stink and then you know, instantly we're
gonna get good. Okay, Well tell that to Buffalo for
twenty years. You know, tell that to other teams that
that have stunk and then just continue to stink. You know,
the Steilers are never They're never gonna They're never gonna
mail it in, They're never gonna try to lose games. Ever,
I'm so you know, going into this season, I was shocked,

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and we talked about this. I was shocked that nobody
picked the Steelers team to go to the playoffs. Now
you can say, Okay, those people that didn't, Hey, they're
a misfield away from not having done that. This is
a better football team than a year ago. You know,
going into the playoffs. This is a better team than
last year's team. There is a reasonable expectation for this
team to win a game and then let's see what happens.

Speaker 4 (02:27:09):
And if you didn't have Mike Tomlin winning those kinds
of games for you, you wouldn't have Mike Tomlin post
game press conferences.

Speaker 19 (02:27:15):
I make that kick, Season's over comes to a screeching
Halten missing that.

Speaker 3 (02:27:20):
Kick and the winner going on. You know it is
my head mail parts. She'd be my uncle. Yeah on
a mail man either way.

Speaker 4 (02:27:31):
Yeah but yeah, Rob king with us A power hour
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a home game first time since they won the division
in twenty twenty. Yeah, twenty twenty, and boy, that's welcome
back here. Plus we couldn't go.

Speaker 3 (02:28:02):
To that game, Kobe.

Speaker 4 (02:28:02):
Was that?

Speaker 3 (02:28:03):
Was that a COVID game? Doing the Browns jumped down
most right before? Because it's twenty twenty, Yeah, March twenty,
the COVID season. Yeah, so the fans were allowed to
go home? Fans? Was the Jacks game? Okay?

Speaker 11 (02:28:17):
Really?

Speaker 21 (02:28:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:28:18):
Wow? Jacob who made his way back from the Caribbean,
he was we were worried he wasn't going to get
back because his flights were disrupted due to international incidents
that are occurring around the region. And we're glad that
you drank your way through that at the airport. I
attack your money.

Speaker 3 (02:28:35):
I had fun at the airport bar yesterday. Well, you
know that's what they're for, you know, to have fun.

Speaker 4 (02:28:40):
Mike Pursuda when we come back, joining the Fray here,
Power Hour Steeler Talk with Rob King, your voice of
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Speaker 12 (02:28:49):
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Speaker 4 (02:29:06):
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learn more. And Mike we you saw the news about
Stefanski getting gay there?

Speaker 3 (02:29:33):
How many is that for them?

Speaker 8 (02:29:34):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:29:34):
And the last little while.

Speaker 4 (02:29:37):
I don't remember who coached before him.

Speaker 3 (02:29:41):
Well I don't either. It's just I don't know.

Speaker 11 (02:29:46):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:29:46):
That's that's the other side of it. That's the other
side of it.

Speaker 15 (02:29:49):
And you know Cleveland is a team that has won
a playoff game more recently than the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (02:29:57):
Do you want to be them? Do you want to
be the new Football Giants? They want to playoff.

Speaker 19 (02:30:03):
Quarterback of the future and he has a passer rating
of eighteen.

Speaker 3 (02:30:06):
It was Hugh what's his name, wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (02:30:11):
Hugh Morris?

Speaker 3 (02:30:12):
No, it was Freddy Kitchens. You remember that guy that
Baker Mayfield pretty much hated. He was the coach was
there when Baker was there. Hugh Jackson's the guy you're thinking.

Speaker 4 (02:30:21):
I was thinking of Hugh Jackson's, but they had Greg
Williams and Freddy Kitchens before that.

Speaker 3 (02:30:24):
Hugh fired himself on a hard knock.

Speaker 4 (02:30:29):
All right, So that nonwithstanding, Okay, that's their problem to
deal with.

Speaker 3 (02:30:34):
Steelers right now. Got to look towards detections.

Speaker 4 (02:30:36):
But let's talk a little bit about what happened last night,
because they might be peaking at the right time, particularly
on the defensive line and on the edge on.

Speaker 15 (02:30:46):
The offensive line too, the trenches. I think I can't
remember if I when our last show was before the break,
but we did the previews show throughout that didn't stop,
and Merril Hodge was adamant. I think this was going

(02:31:07):
into the Cleveland game. He thought both lines had really
gotten it together. Yeah, and that was transferable and that
was kind of game changing for what this team was
capable of. That didn't necessarily show up against the Browns,
but showed up last night.

Speaker 3 (02:31:22):
It's been showing up.

Speaker 4 (02:31:24):
But let's let's not make any mistake about the fact
that that Ravens team, especially with al Kyle Hamilton, not
exactly world beaters. I mean, what they're going to face
in the Houston Texans this coming weekend, this coming Monday night,
is going to be markedly different.

Speaker 15 (02:31:43):
Well only if you consider that Detexans started the season
zero to three and have won gone twelve and two since,
including the last nine wins in succession, including a game
against the Colts yesterday where they really didn't give a
damn and they won.

Speaker 3 (02:32:00):
It anyway they want it. They're rightly looked good.

Speaker 15 (02:32:03):
But you know, yeah, well, because you know again, the
Texans didn't really care defensively going into the final weekend.
I don't know what the final stats turned out to be,
but going into week eighteen, the Texans were number one
in total defense two hundred seventy two point four yards
per game, Number four in rushing defense ninety four point eight,

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number four in passing defense one seventy seven point six,
number one in scoring defense sixteen point six points allowed
per game, Number four in third down defense thirty four
point nine to five percent. Their only relative weakness on defense,
they were middling in red zone, they were sixteenth fifty

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seven point five percent. Now offensively it almost flips around.
Sixteenth in points per game, thirtieth in red zone, twenty
fourth in rushing, twentieth in yard They went with their
defense the Texans. So Steelers got to figure out the
way not to let the Texans defense wreck the game.

Speaker 3 (02:33:06):
And they got to, you know, okay, let's let's let's
still enjoy last night. Okay, before you started worrying about you're.

Speaker 4 (02:33:13):
Starting to zepp all over the place. Might no, no, no,
I'm admonishing myself here. Okay, it's my fault for dragging
us there. Let's enjoy the victory over bald Bull before
we deal with Tyson.

Speaker 15 (02:33:26):
And here's uh, you know, and one thing about that,
you've mentioned hamblon a couple of times, and it's spot
on because Mike Tomlin was asked last night, did you
decide to go down the field more when Hamilton left
the game, He said, no, that was our intention all along.
He plays down low in the box. But also when

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when they lost him, they moved Marlon Humphrey, who was
a suspect cornerback in his own right, they moved him
into Hambleton spot and brought even a worse cornerback into
the game than their two starters, Humphrey and Nate Wiggins.
So that made them weaker corner and thus more susceptible
to go and down. And that was the scenario where
you love to have Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (02:34:09):
I'd love to have Aaron Rodgers pretty much every scenario.

Speaker 19 (02:34:14):
I think kept rushing for four yards to get a
first out scenario, I wouldn't like him.

Speaker 15 (02:34:19):
He had the longest run of the night for the
Steelers last night. He had a career season high in
passing yards last night, and he threw for one hundred
and thirty three yards in the fourth quarter. Wow, his
most in one quarter in this season.

Speaker 4 (02:34:34):
They had three touchdown passes of over twenty yards in
the fourth quarter last night between he and Jackson, and
that was the most in a decade.

Speaker 3 (02:34:41):
Yeah, Jackson set some kind of record.

Speaker 15 (02:34:43):
Think he's the first quarterback to throw two touchdowns of
fifty plus yards to take fourth quarter leads and lose.
One of the things that we saw from the Steelers
last night is something that we have seen kind of
throughout the season but sort of been underplayed. Is they've
been a pretty resilient team. Now you got to screw

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up to be resilient, right, right, they've handled both ends
of that equation. But Rogers talked in detail last night
after delivering the Steelers from the brink into the postseason.

Speaker 17 (02:35:17):
I think there's a lot of belief in the leadership
of the team, you know. I think there's an important
part of the leadership role and being as even keel
as possible and always believing you got a chance.

Speaker 21 (02:35:29):
But it takes moments like this.

Speaker 17 (02:35:31):
You know, back in twenty ten, we were nine and
six playing Chicago last game of the year, and we
eked out a close one in the fourth quarter, ten
to three, and it gave us a little bit of belief,
and then we went on a run where we were underdogs.
I believe the entire playoffs. We're underdogs at home tonight

(02:35:52):
against our division rival. I think it's gonna give us
some belief. Now we're playing I believe that Texans. Is
that right, They're coming off nine in a row. I think, so,
who knows if they'll make us an underdog again at home.
But the belief level in the locker room have to
win like this is exponentially greater, which is what you

(02:36:12):
want to have going into next week.

Speaker 21 (02:36:15):
And then obviously we had DK back.

Speaker 15 (02:36:17):
Yeah, I believe all of that. I mean they believe
going into the game last night they wouldn't have won it.
But now they got to feel like they can handle anything,
no question. I mean, I don't know if that's realistic
or not. That's how they're going to feel.

Speaker 19 (02:36:30):
They're getting their tied arm untied. Also that they've been
fighting with behind their back for the last two games.

Speaker 15 (02:36:35):
Got DK back, multiple guys mentioning that last night there
isn't any kind of bitterness or disgust or how could
you do that? You know, how could you do something
so stupid and take yourself out of the equation when
we need you most. They're just you know what happened.
They're past it and they want them back. They're going
to need them back against the Texans. Rogers also pulled

(02:36:57):
back the curtain a little bit last night while discussing
what was going through his mind in the immediate aftermath
of Tyler Loop's wide right game ending kick.

Speaker 17 (02:37:07):
Just you know, it's chaos, disbelieve, gratitude, a lot of emotions.
It's really really thankful. And that's why I told mister
Roney and Andy and Omar, just to be able to
get right in here and be a part of this team.
And just the way I bonded with the guys and
the way they they've put their arms around me and

(02:37:30):
allowed me to be myself and listen to me and
let me lead and inspire me the way they have.

Speaker 21 (02:37:37):
It's a good group of guys. He's grateful.

Speaker 15 (02:37:41):
We've been watching Mitch Trubisky, Kenny Pickett, Russell Wilson. He's
grateful that he's here right back at you, MANE What
did I had forgotten what it looked like with this
kind of quarterback? You know, we saw it for so
long with Roethlisberger, kind of took it for granted, at

(02:38:01):
least I did, and then after so many failures, you realized,
you know what that guy was pretty specially so's Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (02:38:11):
Huge game for him last night. He also did a
couple of things that were head scratching. But you know,
live by it, die by it.

Speaker 3 (02:38:19):
That's it.

Speaker 15 (02:38:20):
That's you know, it's a perfect way to put it.
I mean, does he throw it a little too often
and check out of the runs to Kinger's point.

Speaker 3 (02:38:29):
Yeah, it happens. That's because that's who he is, that's
what he does.

Speaker 4 (02:38:32):
But I.

Speaker 3 (02:38:35):
Can't imagine who you'd want, you know, give him. What
was available to the Steelers, Well that's important.

Speaker 15 (02:38:40):
Yeah, yeah, I mean and they got lucky. You know,
Justin Fields could have said yes, I know, and then
it would have ended right there. Yeah, and then it
wouldn't have been all the handwringing and all the criticism,
what are they doing?

Speaker 4 (02:38:52):
Although we all agree Justin Fields wouldn't have been as
bad with the Steelers as he was with the Jets.

Speaker 3 (02:38:56):
Probably not, But I don't think he'd been Aaron Rodgers. No,
I don't think he would have been either. About that.

Speaker 15 (02:39:00):
Last night, that guy led two game winning drives. You know,
he led one to put him ahead and then Ravens
scored against so he just did it again.

Speaker 19 (02:39:08):
Does Aaron Rodgers soft cast become a rallying point for
some reason? I want to see people like is that
to become like remember when Rip Hamilton had the face
mask and he in the NBA playoffs and he broke
his nose, but then his nose was heeled, he still
wore the face mask.

Speaker 3 (02:39:21):
That that arms probably gonna heal.

Speaker 4 (02:39:23):
Oh I thought you meant like when like Trumpers were
wearing the band aid on their eyeah.

Speaker 3 (02:39:29):
Yes, that's what I want casts, you know, to think
back to the Cleveland game. He did not have his
best game against Cleveland. Terrible against Cleveland until the last drive.

Speaker 15 (02:39:40):
Yes, if marcuz Fault Scantling runs the right route, it's
a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (02:39:44):
They tie the game.

Speaker 15 (02:39:45):
And since the Browns were clearly done scoring at that point,
they win it in over time.

Speaker 3 (02:39:49):
Did they even score in the first place?

Speaker 15 (02:39:51):
And we're all talking about the majestic drive that Aaron
Rodgers led to clinch the playoffs, Shador threw up a
prayer that should have been intercepted, should have been intercept
and Dougger was looking up in space and turning himself around.
Gave him three because they had to go for it
on fourth and ten from the twenty. I mean that game,
every other ball was a pick six waiting to happen. Yeah,
and they just couldn't make it happen.

Speaker 3 (02:40:13):
Somebody I can't.

Speaker 15 (02:40:14):
Remember who described that game this way, but they said
it was as if Sirdar Sanders hadn't any time.

Speaker 3 (02:40:21):
I bet on Kyle Dogger kept dropping him. Herbig had
a pick six. Yeah, just gone.

Speaker 4 (02:40:29):
But again, the the battle test of those games, the
Detroit and then Cleveland and then culminating with last night's
win at home in a you know, do or die
situation for them. I think it's going to pay dividends
for them heading into the postseason.

Speaker 3 (02:40:47):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 15 (02:40:48):
My biggest disappointment with the Cleveland thing was they couldn't
rest guys in this Ravens game. And I thought, being
an older team that was maybe gonna bite him down
the road. No, what, Rogers doesn't look like he needs
the rest. TJ watch just had three weeks around and
Cam Heyward seems fine, and DK's had plenty, and DK's
had plenty.

Speaker 4 (02:41:05):
Just keep that jackass out of the don't let anybody.

Speaker 19 (02:41:08):
Uh no, nobody with a blue backwards hat all out
in the front three rows exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:41:13):
We gotta hear one more from Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 21 (02:41:15):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (02:41:16):
He was really uh appreciative of the win and the
way the game was won and the rivalry with the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (02:41:23):
Brough also a little defiant.

Speaker 15 (02:41:24):
You guys played the uh you know if my aunt
had male parts clip a minute ago. But uh, here's
Tomlin talking about how the Steelers were or his response
when it was mentioned to him that the Steelers had
taken a lot of punches this season.

Speaker 3 (02:41:38):
We've thrown a lot too, period they have.

Speaker 30 (02:41:44):
Can I ask you know, would you would you would
you cash in last night's game for anything?

Speaker 11 (02:41:51):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (02:41:51):
I mean that was just an incredible well yeah, incredible game.
But you're talking about ball fandom.

Speaker 4 (02:42:01):
I don't think there's any better feeling than the one
Steeler fans had at the end of that game.

Speaker 19 (02:42:07):
Probably because they were pushed to the brink of exactly Listen,
this is like, this is the first game in memory.
My kids were our diehard Steelers fans. I made them
go to bed at halftime. I recorded the game and
then when they I literally shook them awake like Christmas.

Speaker 3 (02:42:21):
Morning and said don't watch and they're like, who won?
I was like, I don't know, So I played it
for them.

Speaker 19 (02:42:26):
It's the first time I've ever had my wife film
their reaction to the end of a game, and it's priceless.

Speaker 3 (02:42:31):
So it's a Row's point, like that's gonna go down
as a chapter.

Speaker 4 (02:42:34):
It is.

Speaker 3 (02:42:34):
It's one of the great chapters in the great rivalry.

Speaker 30 (02:42:37):
And look again, I wanted them to beat Cleveland too,
I did, but it was you know, and that Mike,
you they the crowd was incredible last night. I mean
just an incredible. The whole city was just so into it.
I mean that that wouldn't have happened if you beat Cleveland.
They weren't very confident going into it, and ticket prices
were very low. There was not a huge demand for tickets.

Speaker 4 (02:42:59):
I think that pushed a whole bunch of people into
that game that don't normally get to go to Steeler
games because it was an affordable Steelers Ravens game.

Speaker 30 (02:43:07):
Like I don't think I've ever seen that many towels.
It's think everybody had a towel last night. It was
great Christmas towels, you know. And think about it like
again that you know, now, did I did I want
him to beat Cleveland have a one o'clock game? And
I did, yes, for all the reasons, Mike said, for
all the reasons with your you know you talk about
with your head, but in your heart, man, that was

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just that was unbeatable last night.

Speaker 4 (02:43:30):
There was nothing better, so great, nothing better than seeing
the Steelers beat the Ravens at home with the division
on the line and the playoffs.

Speaker 30 (02:43:39):
It's never happened that that that rivalry has never come.
It feels like it does, it does every year. It's
that's never ever happened before.

Speaker 27 (02:43:47):
Never.

Speaker 30 (02:43:47):
They've never met in the last game of the season
to decide the AFC Nord champion.

Speaker 3 (02:43:51):
Never.

Speaker 15 (02:43:51):
And it's part of the thrill and the satisfaction and
all the great emotions. It's because they're who they are, right,
I mean absolutely, you can hate him and still respect
the hell out of them.

Speaker 3 (02:44:03):
Those guys played their ass off last night. They really did.

Speaker 4 (02:44:07):
That was a hard hitting classic Steelers Ravens game. All right,
quick break and we'll be right back. Steelers win the
AFC North.

Speaker 3 (02:44:17):
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Speaker 1 (02:44:23):
As Rogers gets a snap four man rush coming, Rodgers
back lofting.

Speaker 18 (02:44:30):
Hasn't been wide open. Pittsburgh Steelers fifty five.

Speaker 3 (02:44:39):
Fifty five seconds to the postseason.

Speaker 4 (02:44:44):
All they had to do was stop Lamar Jackson and
Derreck Henry and the Baltimore Ravens from getting into field
goal range. Would have started with covering a kickoff because Chris.

Speaker 3 (02:44:56):
Boswell botched the.

Speaker 30 (02:45:00):
The official designation is blocked and I have not seen
a replay of it did not look blocked.

Speaker 3 (02:45:08):
They credited KeAndre Jackson with blocking the field goal. Congrats
to him.

Speaker 4 (02:45:13):
Keith Mitchell forty two yard kickoff Return's Boswell with the boot,
come down to Mitchell at the five yard line, right
in the middle of the field, going to angle toward
the right and get 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.

Speaker 3 (02:45:32):
You s, that is a big, big return, a forty
two yarder.

Speaker 4 (02:45:39):
But we're in trouble.

Speaker 3 (02:45:40):
I thought, I don't know we're going to win this game.

Speaker 4 (02:45:42):
I thought their goose was cooked right there, really did.
And the defense just came up huge, by the way,
A huge penalty on the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (02:45:52):
Was it the guard well? There was an illegal star
false start start?

Speaker 4 (02:45:58):
Yeah, that was big.

Speaker 30 (02:46:00):
Was he was he lined up in the news It
was a left tackle, Okay, yeah, lined up. It wasn't
lined up at the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 3 (02:46:06):
That was huge.

Speaker 31 (02:46:07):
Uh.

Speaker 30 (02:46:07):
And then they get them to fourth I think it
was fourth and seventh, wasn't it fourth and seven? And
they had too big fourth down plays.

Speaker 4 (02:46:16):
Well, we talked about it earlier, the third down play
where Nate Herbig is inches away from a twenty yard
sack and Lamar just he's it out of bounds. That
would have ended the game. Yeah, But then they get
this fourth second.

Speaker 1 (02:46:30):
Back to past 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 3 (02:46:44):
Tremendous catch a twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (02:46:46):
Yard pickup only twelve seconds to made here at Akrasher Stadium.

Speaker 19 (02:46:51):
That makes my stomach turn just hearing it now, And
even though I know how it ends, it's still my
heartbreak drops a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:46:58):
Just I didn't know how we drew the ire of
the football gods on that one. How on earth does
Boswell miss an extra point? We give up an insanely
long kickoff return only to stop them to fourth and long,
hold them the fourth and long, and then let up
a ridiculous heave to Isaiah likely to put them in
a very makeable field goal range.

Speaker 30 (02:47:20):
And remember Isaiah Likely was the guy in the first
matchup right, didn't get the third foot down in the
end zone when they looked like they'd won the game
that gets overturn.

Speaker 4 (02:47:30):
It was a week before or after.

Speaker 30 (02:47:31):
That that he's running into the end zone and has
the ball knocked away his extend. I mean, he's like
the goat for the Ravens, right, I mean, hey, we
would have won this game in that game it wasn't
for Isaiah Likely.

Speaker 3 (02:47:43):
Then he comes up with.

Speaker 30 (02:47:44):
That catch, and if you're in Baltimore, you're already writing
your story about how you know it comes full circle
and then.

Speaker 3 (02:47:50):
They missed the kick Tyler Loup from forty four, No plainer.
Here's the snap, here's the hole, here's the foot by
loop and that you're Pittsburgh Steelers. Are he S North champions?

Speaker 4 (02:48:12):
Max enjoyed it, Oh man, I got to kick out
when you guys were kicking it around.

Speaker 3 (02:48:16):
In the immediate aftermath.

Speaker 15 (02:48:18):
The thing that I thought Max was happiest about was
sweeping the Ravens.

Speaker 32 (02:48:23):
Yeah we didn't. You didn't here in Cincinnati. We swept
the Ravens. By the way, they get to go to
the playoffs. Oh man, oh, it's so much fun.

Speaker 4 (02:48:34):
Last night after the game, Pat Fryarmouth was asked what
that win meant for him.

Speaker 3 (02:48:42):
It's awesome the organization, but the team in general.

Speaker 4 (02:48:49):
Then we get to coach team.

Speaker 3 (02:48:53):
He said, you get this war coach team.

Speaker 21 (02:48:54):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 11 (02:48:55):
Did you feel like you needed him?

Speaker 3 (02:48:56):
You guys know what I know about Yeah, by the
way posting that, you know what he did.

Speaker 30 (02:49:01):
He tied Chuck Nole for the most career wins, ninth,
was ninth all time.

Speaker 3 (02:49:06):
I think.

Speaker 15 (02:49:08):
Wow, Well, tied Dan Reeves for the ninth most playoff
and regular season wins two one.

Speaker 3 (02:49:15):
He tied Chuck Nole for the most wins in Steelers history.

Speaker 30 (02:49:18):
And yeah, and regular season wins yeah yeah, Noles higher
up because he had like eighteen playoffs more playoff wins, yeah,
but regular season wins he tied Chuck Nole. I mean, look, man,
come on, he could have done that in Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (02:49:31):
Who cares?

Speaker 30 (02:49:31):
He did it against it He did it against the
Ravens in a game for the championship.

Speaker 3 (02:49:36):
Come on, man. Steelers now host the Texans Monday night.

Speaker 4 (02:49:40):
First wild card game for Aaron Rodgers as a Pittsburgh
Steeler first playoff game he's been to in a few years.
He looked pretty emotional on the field after the game
last night when talking about that, saying it had been
in a rough couple of years in New York before
coming here. Seems to genuinely love it here, despite it
being always the smoothest roads. Mike, he's grateful to be here.

(02:50:03):
He's grateful to be here.

Speaker 3 (02:50:05):
I think he's kidding me.

Speaker 19 (02:50:06):
Stealer fans are grateful to have him. There's no chance
this game gets like flexed down to like eleven forty
five or anything like that, right, nothing like that.

Speaker 3 (02:50:16):
That would be nice.

Speaker 15 (02:50:17):
I can I throw one more stat at you, king
around your baseball guy at heart, The defense is now
six and one in safe situation.

Speaker 3 (02:50:25):
Oh, I love it.

Speaker 15 (02:50:26):
I mean, statistically, body of work, they're not good, but
they have continued to progress and get better. And when
they have to get a stop to steal a game
six and one. The only exception is at Cincinnati that
Thursday night.

Speaker 3 (02:50:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 30 (02:50:41):
And the only thing I'll say, Mike too, is that
you look a lot of statistics and just the games
and the quality of opponents that the Steelers are faced
down the stretch.

Speaker 4 (02:50:50):
They are playing their best football. Now, think about, you.

Speaker 30 (02:50:53):
Know, one calendar year ago, when it was the exact opposite,
they were playing their worst football. Down this stretch, they
were playing their best football. And I don't think they
haven't played their best football yet. That there is still
more room for this team.

Speaker 3 (02:51:06):
To be better. And I think that's a really good
thing to be able to say going into the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (02:51:09):
All Right, we always like to highlight one call from
the postgame show that Mike hosts with Charlie Batch here
on the Steelers Audio Network.

Speaker 3 (02:51:15):
This is from last night's post game. Let's go to
Devin in Denver. You're up with Mike and Charlie.

Speaker 4 (02:51:21):
Good evening or morning, Gilman, it's morning here.

Speaker 28 (02:51:28):
So my problem with either the injured fan. We are
not owed super bowls. We want them. There's the difficutween
what you want and what you get. And what we
got was another winning season. What we got is a
playoff home game and hopefully that leads to a super
Bowl run. But I'm just I'm proud of the team.
I'm proud of that T shirt we just got, and

(02:51:49):
I'm proud of Tomlin. I'm proud of the free agency
moves we made. Hopefully we'd be signing gang. Well, I'm
like this team if Aaron plays one more year after
this year, and I like, whatever the way this team
is progressing, it's just that, you know, after all the
doom and gloom and naysang and after this this because

(02:52:09):
we lost this game or didn't do this in this game,
they still got ten wins on the season, and we're
hosting a home playoff game. And like I said, the
Super Bowl is not given to us. The players got
to go out there earn it. I mean, we were
not living in the seventies anymore. It's twenty twenty five,
free agency, players leaving, coming in, going injuries, all kinds
of things happen in seasons, and we just hadn't put

(02:52:31):
together in the playoff run. So hopefully with Aaron Rodgers
at the Helm, we get a long playoff run.

Speaker 19 (02:52:37):
Hey the man, great selection, great selection, right there, guy
with a little appreciation far and wins in a division championship.

Speaker 3 (02:52:45):
Steelers twenty six, Ravens twenty four.

Speaker 4 (02:52:47):
And now it's the Houston Texans visiting Akrosher Stadium, Wild
Card Playoff football in the Berg next Monday night right
here on DV Thanks to Rob King That power Hour,
Steeler Talk, that half hour of the power Our Hour,
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thanks to Jerry Dulac, Tim Benz and Jeff Conko for

(02:53:08):
joining us here live in studio this morning. Tomorrow on
the show, Charlie Batch, Jean Sterretur, Billy Gardell, our buddy
Tad Whistle will be hanging out with us as well.

Speaker 3 (02:53:19):
It's Steeler Tuesday tomorrow. One more week.

Speaker 19 (02:53:25):
I mean, just get your appetizers ready, Get your appetizers ready,
let yourself dream for a second.

Speaker 3 (02:53:33):
We beat the Texans and then you're headed the divisional
playoff football?

Speaker 15 (02:53:37):
Did I give you one more fan reaction? This wasn't
a call, but it was a tweet. Some people tweet
Charlie and I. This is from It's Annie AFC nors Champs,
sending wishes for a speedy recovery for all those injured.

Speaker 3 (02:53:51):
Jumping back on the bandwagon. You say, classy Pittsburgh, don't
touch your face. I got him tug Petsburg all day. Baby.
But now you guys call me Ronald.

Speaker 5 (02:54:01):
Would you not eat my pants?

Speaker 3 (02:54:02):
Coronald oh Man, whay, goggle ahead.

Speaker 33 (02:54:13):
It's time for the Steelers Daily Report on DVE, brought
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Speaker 34 (02:54:25):
Your Pittsburgh Steelers are winners of the AFC North for
the first time since twenty twenty after defeating the Ravens
twenty six to twenty four in a game that was
truly stranger than fiction on Sunday night. The Ravens shout
out to attend to nothing lead in the first quarter
and went to the locker room up ten to three,
but the Steelers came out of the locker room a
determined team, march right down the field to tie the game,
and went into the fourth quarter up thirteen to ten,

(02:54:46):
and that's when chaos erupted. The two teams exchanged the
lead four times in the fourth quarter, the final time
being after Rogers connected with Calvin Austin for a twenty
six yard touchdown pass with fifty five seconds left. Chris
Boswell would miss the extra point, though, leaving the door
op for the Ravens. They would drive right down the
field and set up Tyler Loop for a very makeable
forty four yard field goal, which the rookie would miss

(02:55:07):
wide wright, sending the Steelers to the playoffs. Quarterback Aaron
Rodgers posted two hundred and ninety four yards, passing his
season high, edging out his previous high of two hundred
and eighty four yards, which he also achieved against Baltimore
back in Week fourteen. A sweep against the Ravens and
an AFC North championship is a pretty good first year
in Pittsburgh for the Hall of Fame quarterback. Now let's
see what he can do in his first playoff appearance

(02:55:28):
since the twenty twenty one season. I'm Tom Appraman with
the Steelers Report.

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