November 21, 2025 • 43 mins
Mark is joined by Charlie Batch to break down the Steelers and Bears matchup. Mr Friday Afternoon joins the show to make the football picks. Ask Mark Anything!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Steelers with an interesting game at Chicago because I feel
like there's a lot of stuff we just don't know
about right now joining me now to talk about it.
He's got a great podcast with Trey Essex and you
hear him on the Steeler postgame show on DVE.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's Charlie Batch. Charlie, Am I right about that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It feels like there's a lot about this game we
just don't know about, not least the Steelers quarterback situation.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, unknowns here, And I think ultimately, when you look
at everything that's at stake for the Steeler, they have
a huge opportunity, especially with Buffalo losing last night, But again,
what does everything else look like for this team? Because
everything that they want is in front of them, it's
just a matter how hungry they are.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How will that injury the risk affect what Aaron Rodgers
can and can't do. I mean, that's not his throwing hand,
but it still takes some things away, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It swel here today? But ultimately, or if you're Arthur Smith,
he has to really prepare two game plans, one for
Mason and then one for Aaron because we don't know
if he's capable of taking a snap throughout the entire
game because when you put your left hand on the
bottom and again that jar from the football being snapped.
But again, if a handoff is to the right, he
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now has to grip with that left hand in hand off.
If the play is going to the right, can't he
sustain that? And if he can't, then that means and
he's attempting to play, that means now everything will be
done out of the pistol formation, out of the shotgun.
So it's going to be a different type of game
plan than what we were used to seeing over the
last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
If he has to go with all all shotgun or
snaps in the pistol, Charlie, does that limit his decision
making pre snap?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What does it take away?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And does it make the preparation job easier for the
Chicago defense?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's it a little bit easier for the defense because
you know, again, if you're in that pistol, you know
they're still going to read their keys and whatnot, but
again you're not That takes away from that play action game.
It's really dormant in the shotgun because you're already five
yards behind that token fake doesn't do too much to
those linebackers, So you could pretty much eliminate that particular
phase of the game out for the Steelers offense, and
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again they're just gonna attempt to throw the football down
the field. But again we're not seeing them throwing it
down the field any way to begin with. But again
they are tempting to try to get those explosive plays in,
but right now we're not seeing it continuously. And if
they're in the shotgun, I think he could pretty much
eliminate that play action game.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What's the worst injury you played through, Charlie, And how'd
you handle it?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
There was rips, you know, because again, you know it's
one thing to kind of you know, go through some
pain medication. You're able to play. But the problem is,
you know, trying to get up off the ground because
you're not going to go through the entire game without
getting knocked down. And for me, it was just pushing
myself all off the ground standing back up. And again
that's what I look at where Aaron, because yeah, you
can try to keep him clean as much as possible,
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but you're going to get some type of defense. This
defender that's gonna bumping, gonna push him down and if
they get a penalty that part, coaches are probably like, so,
so be it. We'll out of fifteen yarder if that's
the case. We just want to see him get off
the ground and see if he can push himself up.
So those are the thing that you know going to
be you know, we're going to pay attention to early
in the game because we want to see what the
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defense is going to do if Aaron's able to play.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
If you're Tomlin, who would you play?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What percentage would Rogers have to be apt for you
to start him?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
If I would probably say at least seventy percent. You
know I've seen Tomlin, you know, you know send Ben
out there at only fifty percent. So you know it
wouldn't surprise me if he'd going to throw Aaron out there.
And this is the time that Ben was playing on
the bump ankle, right around twenty eleven. We were getting
ready to head out to San Francisco on a Monday
night game and we end up losing that game, and
I've started the following week because Ben needed a rest.
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In this particular case, Aaron, yes, it's just a risk.
We know he's going to mentally he's going to be fine.
But again, what percentage of the offense is taken away
if he cannot take a snap? So that's why I
give it probably around seventy percent.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
One reason I'd lean toward Rogers, and I think there's
legitimate debate here because I think people underestimate Mason Rudolph.
But but Rodgers is really good at protecting the ball
and that Bears defense is really good at taking it away.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, I agree with you. All that just something that
you know when you look at where that's why he
was brought here. You know, he said, you know, he
could push the football down the field, and that's just
what happens. Is the life of a backup. You can
take all the reps the entire week, and all of
a sudden you get to this point on Friday, and
now he goes from limited to questionable. So I means
now it increases his chances to play, and Mason now
goes back to the role that he is that he
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he's used to coming into the season because that's his
role as the backup. But again, Aaron he is, he
is the best threat I know Mason is. It's chomping
at the bit to get out there. But this is
Aaron's team. He is here. He has, you know, full
faith in his offense, or at least Comlin does, and
that's why he's going to be out there. So it
would not be a surprise if he is trotting out
there for the openness snap.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Where's Caleb Williams at his development at quarterback for Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He's he's having a pretty good sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But but any guy that young, at that experience level,
there's going to be some backsliding.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, it's kind of scratching the surface because we're not
truly seeing Caleb and in that year number two because
he had a different offense last year, and anytime you
have a different offense, you can't go back in the
offseason and now look at all of those plays that
you had, because again, the terminology is going to be
different this year. Ben Johnson has done a great job
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with bringing Caleb under and now building that offense back
up to his strength, and you can see him now
capitalizing off of that and play action is huge for him,
and that's why you know they're protecting him that way
when they're attempting to throw the football down the field.
So I still look to see that, but again, you're
still going to pull back the rains a little bit
and he's going to now get him out there. And
if we start seeing that no huddle, I'll let you know, Okay,
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he's now filling a lot better in the offense because
the coach feels comfortable with him going out there calling
his own plays.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We're talking to Charlie Batch. You can hear him on
the DVE postgame show after Steelers games. Do they trust
Mason Rudolph? I mean, I think that so many times
I would have stuck with him or started him or
even made him the start to begin the season, and they.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Just have it. They haven't. And you know, and when
I looked at Mason, you know, in his postgame press
conference last last week, you know, he became emotional and
he talked about, you know, his time here and wanting
to be here and never wanted to go anywhere else.
But yet the organization didn't show that love back to him.
If you just look at the course of his whole
career that he had here, he played with ten quarterbacks
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to the organization essentially tried to replace them. And people
say ten, and I'm like, well, if you go back,
you know that he had to beat out Josh Dobbs,
he had Duck Hodges. Then they turn around and draft
Kenny Pickett. They bring miss Trubisky in here, and don't forget,
in that same draft they drafted a guy out of
South Dakota State in the seventh round, and then all
of a sudden, the following year they get judged, I'm sorry.
In that same year they bring Dwayne Haskin in here,
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and then the following year Justin Fields, Russell Wilson, Al Allen,
and then here you have Aaron Rodgers again, so that
love is just not being shown back. But again, yes,
he's excited to be here. We know he's capable of playing.
He just wants that opportunity because that's why he thought
he was drafted here to be the heir to Ben Roethlisberger,
and unfortunately the organization didn't feel the same way. But yet,
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we need Mason Rudolph to potentially save the season again,
so toot off to him for continuing to be ready.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is an odd defensive matchup, isn't it, Charlie. The
Bears defense isn't great but gets takeaways. The same description
applies to the Steeler defense. But we both know you
can't count on takeaways and you really can't even look
for takeaways, can you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You can't because the Bears offense is that good. They
don't turn the ball over. They only have four in
a season. So if you're looking in that department, is
there opportunities There may be Hopefully the Steelers, you know,
could create that, but based off where you are at
this particular point of the season, they're not turning the
football over. And we all know the formula that the
Steelers win turn the ball over, they win the game,
and they produce points. They have to figure out a
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way to control that time of possession. But the Bears
run the football well. But now the Steelers have to
take that time and possession back by controlling that line
of scrimmage. You're running the football to keep that Bears
offense off the field.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The Bears are great at running the ball, and Caleb
Williams with his legs, adds an extra dimension to that.
What's the stealer's best bet? What kind of strategy formation
wouldever de countering that?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I think this is where you utilize the speed of TJ.
Watt and Nick Herbeck on the outside. Those guys there,
they have to play, you know, a little bit more
simon sound football. Yes, you can rush the quarterback, but
also understand he's capable of escaping it. So I don't
know if the Steelers possibly used a robber type of
mentality where they were you using an extra linebacker to
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make sure they're spying him to But again, if you've
used that to spy the quarterback, now you're losing one
in coverage. So I don't they can't do that consistently.
You can use it as a switch up, but ultimately
you just want to try to confuse him as much
as possible because you want to make Caleb uncomfortable. And
if he starts rolling out, then you know, okay, at
least you're getting to the quarterback. Now you just have
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to cover downfield.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
On the flip side. Charlie, why won't the Steelers commit
more to the run? I know they've not been partectarly
good at it. They're fourth from bottom, but they dump
out of it pretty quick, don't they.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
They don't have that flow, and that's why you want.
You know, people talk about starting fast, but again that's
why you have the substitution, the substitution the personnel in
those substitution packages, because you want to see how they're
lining up, and that's what a chess match begins. But
if you don't have enough in that first two series,
you don't know what the defense is doing. So now
you don't have, you know, that confidence of being able
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to continue to stick with the run because now you're
attempting to get back into the game, create a spark,
and that's where you start to abandon the run game
because that three yards you start to get impatient. You
want to now get those chunk plays, and that's what
you're kind of seeing when that running game doesn't get
going early.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I see this as a big game for both teams.
Charlie and the Bears are on top of that division.
They want to stay there, which is a great division,
the NFC North and the Steelers. If if they lose
in Baltimore wins in which they will against the New
York Jets, then they're tied for first and that's three
game lead evaporated in boy with Houston beating Buffalo last night,
it is a crowded house for the wild Card, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yes, Yes, that's right. You do not want to be in.
You don't want to be in that mess of all
that clouding is there. You want to stay ahead of
the division. And this is a huge game, even though
you know they're in the NFC. But you have to state,
of course, because Buffalo now all of a sudden they're
dropping down and you know, but what does that look
like for a playoff scenarios at the end of the season.
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If the Steelers handle of a business, they don't have
to worry about looking elsewhere. But if you get into
that flutter, now Baltimore believes that they can actually get
it done. And if that, if the Stealer, for whatever reason,
lose this game, I firmly believe that at the end
of that season. And this is where you got to
get The schedule makers are a lot of credit at
the NFL that that Week eighteen matchup and those we
get seventeen game, but that Week eighteen matchup at home
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will probably be a primetime game. In a winer of
that Baltimore Steelers game gets into playoffs, and I think
the loser is out. So this is why this game
is very critical.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Finally, Charlie, I can't believe that they're gonna put Slay
back in for Pierre after the way both have played.
Slay's really struggled, Pier has been pretty good. What do
you make of that?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Y Connaswitch and Mark. I think you get to the
point where you know the coaches, even if the coaches,
this is what I truly believe, Even if the coaches
think that they want to make a change. I think
front office said, we were listening to you, but we
don't agree. Only because Slay has a guaranteed contract this year.
So there's no way that they're gonna pay someone on
to sit on the sideline that has the guaranteed contract.
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So they're gonna fully expect Darius Slay to be out
there this week along with the rest of the season,
only because of that reason.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Charlie, I mean a lot of people are saying that,
but I would respond, they gonna pay him anyway. I mean,
you know, on the bench, on the field, you gotta
pay him. Why not put him where he can do
the least damage.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I'm with you on it. You know, James y are Yes,
he definitely does to be out there a lot more.
This is just the business of football. This is how
it works. Unfortunately, those guys you know, when you look
at management, they're not going to do that. When you
have guarantee contracts off of it, the money oversees anything else, essentially, unfortunately.
But again, this is where we are and the decision
they have to live with, the decision they made at
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the beginning of the season. I guarantee in that contract. Now,
this is the point where you truly need him because
this is why you brought him here for that veteran experience.
He had the Super Bowl win as a Super Bowl winner.
Now you want him to now and steal that into
the rest of the roster. And that's why he's here.
That's why I expecting to see him play.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Charlie is always great stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I enjoyed the postgame show every week and we'll talk
again next week.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's the great Charlie Batch. Check him out on the
post game show. That's not just on DV, that's on
the whole Steelers audio network which is vast. And of
course you hear him in this podcast with Trey Essex,
which is just superb football talk. It's not time for
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Speaker 6 (14:23):
M hey double m so you always say Mike Tomlin
has final say of a roster construction and a team
had a first round grade on Mason Rudolph that all set.
If they were so enamored with him, why do they
bring him in and then treat him the way they do.
I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I don't get why they benched him for duck, which
was just a cataclysmically stupid decision. I don't get why
he didn't come back as the starter in twenty twenty
four after winning three games to end the season and
get a pretty mediocre Steeler team in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I don't get it. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I mean, I know why fans don't like him. Fans
don't like him because he looked weak when Garrett swung
the helmet at him. There was the racism accusation, which
I don't think is true.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Nobody else confirmed it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I thought that was pretty rotten for Garrett to just
throw that out there when it just wasn't verified by anybody.
And there's microphones and cameras everywhere on an NFL field.
And then when he got concussed and had to have
the face mask cut off, that became a meme. He
looked weak there too, So, but I don't know if
the coaching staff would hold that against him, if Tomlin would.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I also know.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
He's a trumper. He's a trumper and people don't like that,
not with the Steelers. So did that effect, you know,
how they perceive him as a quarterback. I can't believe
it would. But since there's no good reason for him
not ever getting a fair shake, a shake that he earned,
might I add, I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I can't countot even a stupid reason. What do you think?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
No, I just can't put my finger on it. I mean,
the guy has come in acted professional his entire tenure. Here,
he leads it to the playoffs in twenty three, does
everything ask of him. But somehow there's just it's almost
like I don't get I've never understood the anti Rudolph sentiment.
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, I mean, his biggest his biggest weakness always is
going to be that he's not Ben. And he came
in drawing Ben's tenure and Ben didn't want to get him.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
You know, Ben criticized the pick.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He wanted somebody could help him now, and Ben, by
all accounts, was not very helpful to Rudolph. Why that
is I do not know, and too many people said
that though for it not to have some basis In.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Fact, yeah, it just never made sense to me. The
guy's one everything asked of him. And he comes back
to Pittsburgh after a year in Tennessee, uh and plays
well last week. I don't I never, I will never
figure this out. But thank you, super genius.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Thankins eight three three, four one two wxdx the number
to call. Yeah, I mean most of you don't like
Rudolph either, I know that, but you should. He got
in the playoffs in twenty twenty three. You're man because
he lost the playoff game. Right, well, they an't won
a playoff game in a long time, and it wasn't
Mason Rudolph's fault every time. And in twenty twenty three,
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he got you there in the first place, when honestly,
you weren't good enough to deserve it, although who gets
there is who gets there. We have an injury report
update some real interesting stuff, especially from Chicago where their
best linebacker, Tremaine Edmonds, who has four picks.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He's out.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
TJ Edwards, linebacker out again, didn't play last week either,
but that's two starting linebackers out the depth chart for Chicago.
For the Steelers, Aaron Rodgers has listed as questionable and
I really do wonder, I really do wonder. Cam Hayward
listed as questionable. That's probably because he's old Sleigh listed
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as questionable, that's probably because he sucks. And here's the
guy we should all be just tired of. Alex high
Smith doubtful. This brittle some bitch is always hurt. Not
as much as Corey Trice, but he's always hurt. He
got the money and since then he plays like not
every other game, but not many more than that.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And he plays good when he does play.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
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HiT's Bunny Diver and I just love good news. Okay,
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On a ninety degree day in Racine, Wisconsin. It gets
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showing him their toys and all this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 2 (21:18):
You're coming on strong.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
All right, So first of all, you're you're already a
spreader of the misinformation and disinformation. Okay, two weeks ago
was last week was three and two, The week before
was five and one, and the week before that was
three and two, Three straight weeks of winning. After you
threatened my job, I.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Thought you were, didn't I thought you were three and
three the uh the first week?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
How could I be? Three and three? No, three and two.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Three.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
If you're a spreader, you're a spreader of misinformation.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Spread information, spread anything I want you jerk, But you're
a spreader of misinformation. You get a different information one
second to can be You'll be out.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Of here like a goose.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You threaten me with my job. Say if I don't win.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Shocking you, I took the shock collar off.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Okay, fine, but you threatened me with my job if
I didn't start winning last week. You took me off
the air after two street consecutive winning week, which is
an egregious breach of contract. And my contract is ironclass.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Are your contract takes into account that the entire show
is preempted? What did you want to go on in
the middle of the Penguin game at Sweden to make
your picks?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
There is literally nothing in the contract that talks about preemption.
Your breach of contract, which means, okay, sue, who cares? Okay,
but I'm I'm I'm I want.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
To think a big If you don't know, no, no compromise,
shut up right now and make your pick.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Okay, Listen, if I have another winning week after you
get third in the winning week, I want to be
eligible for are the fans to vote on whether or
not I should get a raise. I think that's a
fair deal.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Have another winning week, then we'll put it this way.
How about this, if you have another winning week, that
will be on the table. We can discuss it some more.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Okay, fine, it's on the table.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Okay, But don't you ever address me disrespectfully again. I
want an apology right now.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Well, you disrespected you by kicking me off the air
last week.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, the Penguins preempted you. The Penguins at a game
but in Stockholm at two pm. That preempted the entire show.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You knit with But but but I had but last
week I had zero doubt, and you preempted. You preempted me,
which is like an egregious preash of contract.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, No, the contra the contract says all you had
to do to stay, for us to be within the
parameters of the deal is to make the picks, which
you did. We called you for the picks. The picks
got on the air.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, okay, so you have Well should we get to the.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Pis Yeah, yes, okay, Steelers game first?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Who do you.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Got I peop? Well, first of all, I'm on a
hot streak and I think that we should be able
to talk. I should be able to talk to my fans.
I'm sure my fans are lighting up the boards right now.
The person waiting to talk to you, Well, that's the
well what should doing is you're that's your algorithm is
suppressing my content with any luck?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, but you can call to talk to mister Friday
afternoon dial eight three three four one two w XDX.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I'm excited about this week because I am a zero
doubt Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
The Steelers are two and a half point underdogs against Chicago.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Who do you like?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Can I make a Can I ask you a question?
And in the interest of fairness, since the Steelers have
not announced the quarterback, can I make a picked contingent
on who the quarterbacks are?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Because I have zero doubts.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Well that's my that's my catchphrase.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
No, no, it's the show's catchphrase. We own all the
intellectual property.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh you own all the ID Yes? Oh well that's great.
Well well hey, hey, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, but we don't want you to say make your pick.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, let's let's go. We're gonna I'm assuming this line
is the Bears are minus two and a half because
Rogers is playing and I'm not gonna bet on a
team that has with a guy with a broken wrists.
I'm gonna take the Bears. This is you know, this
is not fair because like I don't really know who's
(25:44):
playing quarterback. I'm assuming Rogers is playing because I think
the line would be higher if Rudolph is playing. But
Rogers is playing with a broken broken wrist. And I
think this is an opportunity where the Bears, who've been
tortured by Aaron Rodgers over the years and he's on
Green Bay, see a lame duck, a hurt quarterback with
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a broken wrist on a different team with an opportunity
to to to basically get some payback. And like, you know,
this is this is definitely gonna be Aaron rodgers last
game in Chicago ever, and I think that they're gonna
step up and like they want to deliver to their
fans of victory over the hated evil Aaron Rodgers. I'm
(26:26):
gonna take the Bears minus half.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
First uf No, the Bears, the Bears. You take the
Bears minus two and a half. First off, Aaron Rodgers
isn't evil. He's my favorite Steeler. Second, in private conversation, No, no,
you talked about what.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That's just not true. I never met him. How would
I know that?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Because you don't like the guy.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
He is my favorite Steeler. I resent you casting.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
You hate you hate the Steelers, and.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You hate the Steelers and you feel uncomfortable with his
pick because the quarterback situation correct.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Well, I just don't know what the quarterback situation is.
I'm assuming, based on my knowledge of football the line.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Okay, since you're uncomfortable with the pick, I'm gonna say
it right now.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's the super collider.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
That's a that's that's an egregious Uh, that's egregious malepractice
on your part.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
It's the super collider.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
What's your game of the week? Pick of the week?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Uh? I love the Bengals getting seven against the Patriots
this week at home. Okay, looks it looks. It looks
like the Burrows is going to be playing. Okay, and
there's another game. I don't know, but I'm assuming because
the line went from eight and a half to six
and a half an hour and now to seven and
then the six and a half other puce. Look to
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take that.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The Bengals plus seven against New England. Yes, you know what,
I'm gonna go off the board. That is also the
super Collider. I'm going to super cold of course, Joy,
of course.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I packing Wait a minute, I haven't even talked about
the Daily double yet.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Bear super Collider, Ben super Collider, the rare double super collider.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's never been done this year. Okay, let we gonna
get you. Would you like to talk to one of
your fans. Absolutely, let's go to Rich Rich. You're oh,
mister Friday Afternoon.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
What a great name for my Rich. I'm Rich? Hey,
I love your afternoon? If what's that rich? Are you?
Is that a nickname.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Because you've been freaking guy talk?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Well, his name is Rich. I wonder if that's a
nickname because he's rich taking all my dad Rich?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Hey, I love mister Friday Afternoon.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
If you could preempt him the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, see that you not understand?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What do you think of my unpressing and a decision
to have a double super collider.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
That's that's that's tremendous.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
It is. I'm thank you for the call, Reache. I
am the star of this segment, not you. What's the
Daily Double?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
We're gonna go Okay, so this is we're gonna go
contrict Uh what are you called the regression to the
mean here? So last week the Bills clobbered the Buccaneers
as like a five and a half point favorite at home,
and Allen went off. Then they regressed to the mean.
Allan did nothing this past week against Houston. Baker Mayfield's
(29:30):
a competitor. I did not see this. This team that
Tample is a good team too. They're not gonna go
on the road two weeks in a row and put
up a stinker. The Rams just came up two straight
division games where they beat Timperancis because they beat Seattle.
This is a little bit of a letdown spot. Baker
is gonna come uh, probably keep the back door open.
This should be a closer game than than than it
(29:52):
was against Buffalo. I see maybe the Rams winning this
game by three, or even the Buccaneers upsetting them. I'm
taking the Buccaneers plus seven in this and I have
zero dow.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Okay, that is the daily double Tampa Baylas. So let's
go over the picks. The Bears minus two and a
half against the Steelers, that is the super collider. The
Bengals plus seven against New England that is the rare,
unprecedented I'm giving the people what they want, the Double
Super Collider and then the daily Double, Tampa.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Bay plus.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Correct and all those, all those games that the name
was zero dow Can Is there any more Miss.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Sampseng No, No, they've just dried up, by the way.
How about your home? How about your football team, Sunderland?
Who do they play?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I seek the playing Fulham this week. That is one
of the good, the best managed teams in the Premier League.
And I look for Sutherland to keep of the keep
the winning ways going. And you know, like we have,
you know, we have a personal side deck that are
Sunderland defeats. You know, had a Liverpool in the Premierly
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this year, you're gonna owe me one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
That's just not true. We never made that bet.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
We we made that you you you you in a
fit of a fit of ecstasy after Liverpool beat Arsenal.
You made that be with the other verbally.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
When you say bet if if Liverpool Finis had a Sunderland,
you owe me a thousand dollars, then right.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Oh, I never said that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You there, zero Dad, Screw you, screw Sunderland. You want
to make. I'll give you.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I'll give you two to one onds right now, my
thousand against your five hundred Liverpool finishers out of Sunderland.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
No, I'm already free roll and you said, lishut up.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
No, that's just not true.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Why are you being so nasty this week? You're being
very combative. I don't know why. Why that is. Especially
you're being combative in a week when I'm gonna throw.
I'm on a three week win streak. Why do you
beat something.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Batter because you're a jerk.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Well, at least I'm not a jackass.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It's time goodbye. It's time not to call and ask
Mark anything, and you are a jackass. I have zero doubts.
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Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'm still laughing about that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Uh ceedee. Lamb and George Pickens story. We knew they
got bench for the first series of the Dallas game
at Vegas this past Sunday, but we didn't know why.
It turned out it's because Lamb and Pickens both miss
curfew the night before in Vegas shooting crap with Eric Carlson,
I think, and Lamb admitted to drinking, but denied throwing
(33:52):
up in a garbage can as somebody had reported at
six am, because he can hold his liquor, so it's
okay to drink and miss curfew was long as you're
a functioning alcoholic. I just love football. And then somebody
talked to George Pictus today and he said he had
no beef with the Steelers and no beef with coach Tomlin.
That he could talk to coach tom win out and
have a great conversation. And that's the problem here in Pittsburgh.
(34:14):
No matter how you f things up, Mike Tomlin's always
your buddy. And if you don't think that's a problem,
I could point to a lot of examples that proves
I am right.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Had a funny exchange on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I was talking about the Shador Sanders things, the race
baiting involved in that, and somebody tweeted that the NFL
puts end racism on the end line at games on
the field, like that'll end racism, But of course it's
going to end racism. We're already seeing that that's going
to happen because that is on TV on the end
(34:52):
line at NFL games. People love the NFL. That act
end racism on the end line in the end zone
at NFL games on TV will end racism. I feel
like we're getting close to that already. Any hoodles, ask
Mark anything. Let's go to Cody. Cody, ask Mark anything.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Hey, Mark, just wanted to know the odds of Penn
State hiring Terry Smith for next season.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
You know, as more and more coaches sign new deals
to stay where they're at, which is because schools are
afraid that Penn State's going to proach him, I think
it becomes more and more of a possibility. It would
be a terrible move, just a terrible move. Why would
you hire the guy, the interim guy who was part
of the program that fell apart enough in your estimation
to fire Franklin, which I still say was a bad move.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Terry Smith ain't never.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Been groomed to be the next head coach like Tom
Bradley was when he worked for Joe Paterno. He's just
not a head coach. No offense to him, lovely guy,
He's not a head coach. But then again, who else
they're going to hire?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah, that's the big that's the big Urban Meyer.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Well, that would that would turn the program into a
more scattershot, uh sporadic joke than it already is, and
it already is. That they never should have fired Franklin.
The next coach won't do as good as Franklin. I
will be proven one right about that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Let's go to Jonah. Jonah ask Mark anything.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Good?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Damn it's the Madden, I said, Good day, Mark.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
I just want to talk about I feel like, you know,
the Steelers story this season feels already written. I mean,
what's the best they're going.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
To do it?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Not only it not only feels already written, it feels
like the same old story for the last almost a decade.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Absolutely, And I mean, I don't know, I'm so just
sick of Colin's vanticks, the team vanticks. I feel like
they're an extremely unlikable bunch. But I just wanted to say,
I mean, I'm really, you know, proud of the Penguins
right now, really into just the story lines that are developed.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Because they've finally done something different.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
They moved away from the same old, same old that
said it certainly took come long enough to do it,
didn't it right?
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Absolutely? But just I mean, how awesome is it that
Horcroff I guess is leading the NCAA Division one in
goals right now? I mean, kindle start, and I mean
it's just I think we still need to appreciate.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
What sid doing.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
And I mean, just yeah, I appreciate keep malk and.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can't keep malking, can't block Kindle, can't block cork Coff
for that matter.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But they're gonna I mean, that'll be when they take
a step backwards, when they they cling to the last
vestiges of of not moving forward, which is something they've
indulged for most of the last decade, just like the Steelers.
But but no, I am enthusiastic about what they're doing.
I'm just worried that they might follow it up because
they're hypnotized by the start they've had and would be
(37:51):
hypnotized further by making the playoffs this year, which they
might do. The best thing that could happen for this
team would have been if they would have got a
top five pick, But it doesn't look like that's gonna.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Happen, right right, No, Yeah, I mean play else would
certainly be the cherry on top. But go Pennce, hopefully
you will this weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
No, the cherry on top would be drafting. God, what's
the damn kid's name of Penn State? McKenna, Gavin McKenna, I.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Am getting old. People had to know I'm not shaken
yet though, Thank Heavens. By the way, you know what
I hate. I gotta get this in there.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Daylight savings time and it gets stark really early. Now
that depresses me, That really depresses me. I'm so sad.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Let's go to a talkback, Hey, Mark, what is it
with all of these offensive tackles constantly jumping early and
not getting called for false starts?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
What say you?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Well, Orlando Brown Junior, you know, like like backpedaled into
his pass blocking stance early, like on half the snaps
in that in that Steelers game against Cincinnati and they
never called it.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I mean, are they just so used to seeing it?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Does it seem something they're used to that they're willing
to let it go.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
And it ain't just Orlando bron Junior, although he makes
it epidemic. He does it so often it's just absurd.
Let's go to a talk back.
Speaker 12 (39:15):
Your guest this week, in analyzing the Steelers seemed to
be in consensus that Aaron Rodgers is the better quarterback
than Mason Rudolph. I'm not going to dispute that, but
my question to you is could Mason Rudolph potentially be
the better quarterback for this particular football team.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
My question to you is, why are you yelling? I'll
do the yelling around here.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I've never suggested Mason Rudolph is a better quarterback than
Aaron Rodgers. I suggested his tools might be sharper, as
arm might be stronger, but Rodgers' guile and his pre
snap and he's not so far behind Mason Rudolph and
the things where I think Rudolph hasn't advantage. So I
would start Rogers, but maybe not at whatever percent he's
at for the Chicago game. Charlie Batch said he would
(39:58):
start Rogers if he's at seven. I would tend to
think that is the bottom end of the percentage that
I would also go with. Don't forget tomorrow. I'm at
Shiloh Playton Poor. I'm at Washington for the River Hunts
game kick off at noon. USL Championship at Stake at Tulsa,
and I'll be there for the Liverpool game before that too.
(40:19):
But leave me alone if you come there to watch that,
and I'm serious about that, leave me the frig alone.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Let's go to Cody. Cody, what's up?
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Mark? So you know we're in. We're in this spot
right now. We got all these old vets on the team.
You know, everyone's talking.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
We got Will Howard, he's our guy.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Nobody's saying that right now. But go ahead, maybe you are?
I mean, is yeah, F John Gruden, F you two
anything else? It's just stupid. I mean, you're stupid. Gruden stupid.
The idea of playing Howard is stupid. I can't emphasize
enough how dumb ass that is. And you are and
John Gruden, let's go to Rick on the south side. Rick,
you're on with double M.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Hey what I have?
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Double M?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
What up? Hey?
Speaker 8 (41:01):
All the years you've been doing this, do you have
a sporting event that you haven't attended yet that you
wish to attend before you leave this earth?
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Champions League final with Liverpool in it World Cup game,
But I'll do that this summer somewhere. That's probably about it.
There's a couple of arenas I'd still like to go to,
but uh, but mostly in terms of events, those are it.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
And I'm I'm sure you've answered this before, but what's
your what's your most memorable memorable sporting event.
Speaker 6 (41:32):
You've been to?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
But I've attended in person, Yes, sir, Penguins clinched the
Stanley Cup at Detroit No.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Maybe the the Penguins beat Chicago Game one of the
ninety two final on Lemieu's last second goal, because huge
game was in the middle of the Penguins biggest one
ever eleven straight playoff games on route to a second
straight up, and I took my mom to the game
because I wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
So that's a big memory. Thank you. Let's go to
a talkback, Hey.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Mark Richard in the truck, who, in your opinions, the
better Steeler backup, Mason Rudolph or Charlie Batch.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Charlie Batch, because Charlie Batch just proved so many times
could come in cold and win, whether you know, after
not playing getting many STAPs in practice. Charlie was just
an incredibly efficient backup. I think Charlie Batch might be
the best stealer backup of all time. Him or Mike
tom Zach those are the two guys who immediately come
(42:37):
to mind for quality in that role.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Okay, get some more calls in.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
We got the Hockey Night Show at five point thirty,
Gonna replay that interview yesterday with Ryan Graves. Gonna talk
hockey with my producer, Tommy Radio. So stick around because
then after that we got the Penguins Network pregame showing
in the Penguins game. I don't forget. Like I said, I'm
a Shiloh. Playton Port Tomorrow noon kickoff for the River
Hans game USL Championship. Then Sunday one pm kickoff at
(43:08):
Marinos American Eatery in Greensburg for the Steelers game one
oh five ninety x
Steelers with an interesting game at Chicago because I feel
like there's a lot of stuff we just don't know
about right now joining me now to talk about it.
He's got a great podcast with Trey Essex and you
hear him on the Steeler postgame show on DVE.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's Charlie Batch. Charlie, Am I right about that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It feels like there's a lot about this game we
just don't know about, not least the Steelers quarterback situation.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, unknowns here, And I think ultimately, when you look
at everything that's at stake for the Steeler, they have
a huge opportunity, especially with Buffalo losing last night, But again,
what does everything else look like for this team? Because
everything that they want is in front of them, it's
just a matter how hungry they are.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How will that injury the risk affect what Aaron Rodgers
can and can't do. I mean, that's not his throwing hand,
but it still takes some things away, doesn't.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It swel here today? But ultimately, or if you're Arthur Smith,
he has to really prepare two game plans, one for
Mason and then one for Aaron because we don't know
if he's capable of taking a snap throughout the entire
game because when you put your left hand on the
bottom and again that jar from the football being snapped.
But again, if a handoff is to the right, he
(01:10):
now has to grip with that left hand in hand off.
If the play is going to the right, can't he
sustain that? And if he can't, then that means and
he's attempting to play, that means now everything will be
done out of the pistol formation, out of the shotgun.
So it's going to be a different type of game
plan than what we were used to seeing over the
last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
If he has to go with all all shotgun or
snaps in the pistol, Charlie, does that limit his decision
making pre snap?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What does it take away?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
And does it make the preparation job easier for the
Chicago defense?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's it a little bit easier for the defense because
you know, again, if you're in that pistol, you know
they're still going to read their keys and whatnot, but
again you're not That takes away from that play action game.
It's really dormant in the shotgun because you're already five
yards behind that token fake doesn't do too much to
those linebackers, So you could pretty much eliminate that particular
phase of the game out for the Steelers offense, and
(02:04):
again they're just gonna attempt to throw the football down
the field. But again we're not seeing them throwing it
down the field any way to begin with. But again
they are tempting to try to get those explosive plays in,
but right now we're not seeing it continuously. And if
they're in the shotgun, I think he could pretty much
eliminate that play action game.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What's the worst injury you played through, Charlie, And how'd
you handle it?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
There was rips, you know, because again, you know it's
one thing to kind of you know, go through some
pain medication. You're able to play. But the problem is,
you know, trying to get up off the ground because
you're not going to go through the entire game without
getting knocked down. And for me, it was just pushing
myself all off the ground standing back up. And again
that's what I look at where Aaron, because yeah, you
can try to keep him clean as much as possible,
(02:45):
but you're going to get some type of defense. This
defender that's gonna bumping, gonna push him down and if
they get a penalty that part, coaches are probably like, so,
so be it. We'll out of fifteen yarder if that's
the case. We just want to see him get off
the ground and see if he can push himself up.
So those are the thing that you know going to
be you know, we're going to pay attention to early
in the game because we want to see what the
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defense is going to do if Aaron's able to play.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
If you're Tomlin, who would you play?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What percentage would Rogers have to be apt for you
to start him?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
If I would probably say at least seventy percent. You
know I've seen Tomlin, you know, you know send Ben
out there at only fifty percent. So you know it
wouldn't surprise me if he'd going to throw Aaron out there.
And this is the time that Ben was playing on
the bump ankle, right around twenty eleven. We were getting
ready to head out to San Francisco on a Monday
night game and we end up losing that game, and
I've started the following week because Ben needed a rest.
(03:39):
In this particular case, Aaron, yes, it's just a risk.
We know he's going to mentally he's going to be fine.
But again, what percentage of the offense is taken away
if he cannot take a snap? So that's why I
give it probably around seventy percent.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
One reason I'd lean toward Rogers, and I think there's
legitimate debate here because I think people underestimate Mason Rudolph.
But but Rodgers is really good at protecting the ball
and that Bears defense is really good at taking it away.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, I agree with you. All that just something that
you know when you look at where that's why he
was brought here. You know, he said, you know, he
could push the football down the field, and that's just
what happens. Is the life of a backup. You can
take all the reps the entire week, and all of
a sudden you get to this point on Friday, and
now he goes from limited to questionable. So I means
now it increases his chances to play, and Mason now
goes back to the role that he is that he
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he's used to coming into the season because that's his
role as the backup. But again, Aaron he is, he
is the best threat I know Mason is. It's chomping
at the bit to get out there. But this is
Aaron's team. He is here. He has, you know, full
faith in his offense, or at least Comlin does, and
that's why he's going to be out there. So it
would not be a surprise if he is trotting out
there for the openness snap.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Where's Caleb Williams at his development at quarterback for Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He's he's having a pretty good sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But but any guy that young, at that experience level,
there's going to be some backsliding.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, it's kind of scratching the surface because we're not
truly seeing Caleb and in that year number two because
he had a different offense last year, and anytime you
have a different offense, you can't go back in the
offseason and now look at all of those plays that
you had, because again, the terminology is going to be
different this year. Ben Johnson has done a great job
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with bringing Caleb under and now building that offense back
up to his strength, and you can see him now
capitalizing off of that and play action is huge for him,
and that's why you know they're protecting him that way
when they're attempting to throw the football down the field.
So I still look to see that, but again, you're
still going to pull back the rains a little bit
and he's going to now get him out there. And
if we start seeing that no huddle, I'll let you know, Okay,
(05:45):
he's now filling a lot better in the offense because
the coach feels comfortable with him going out there calling
his own plays.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
We're talking to Charlie Batch. You can hear him on
the DVE postgame show after Steelers games. Do they trust
Mason Rudolph? I mean, I think that so many times
I would have stuck with him or started him or
even made him the start to begin the season, and they.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Just have it. They haven't. And you know, and when
I looked at Mason, you know, in his postgame press
conference last last week, you know, he became emotional and
he talked about, you know, his time here and wanting
to be here and never wanted to go anywhere else.
But yet the organization didn't show that love back to him.
If you just look at the course of his whole
career that he had here, he played with ten quarterbacks
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to the organization essentially tried to replace them. And people
say ten, and I'm like, well, if you go back,
you know that he had to beat out Josh Dobbs,
he had Duck Hodges. Then they turn around and draft
Kenny Pickett. They bring miss Trubisky in here, and don't forget,
in that same draft they drafted a guy out of
South Dakota State in the seventh round, and then all
of a sudden, the following year they get judged, I'm sorry.
In that same year they bring Dwayne Haskin in here,
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and then the following year Justin Fields, Russell Wilson, Al Allen,
and then here you have Aaron Rodgers again, so that
love is just not being shown back. But again, yes,
he's excited to be here. We know he's capable of playing.
He just wants that opportunity because that's why he thought
he was drafted here to be the heir to Ben Roethlisberger,
and unfortunately the organization didn't feel the same way. But yet,
(07:12):
we need Mason Rudolph to potentially save the season again,
so toot off to him for continuing to be ready.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
This is an odd defensive matchup, isn't it, Charlie. The
Bears defense isn't great but gets takeaways. The same description
applies to the Steeler defense. But we both know you
can't count on takeaways and you really can't even look
for takeaways, can you.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
You can't because the Bears offense is that good. They
don't turn the ball over. They only have four in
a season. So if you're looking in that department, is
there opportunities There may be Hopefully the Steelers, you know,
could create that, but based off where you are at
this particular point of the season, they're not turning the
football over. And we all know the formula that the
Steelers win turn the ball over, they win the game,
and they produce points. They have to figure out a
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way to control that time of possession. But the Bears
run the football well. But now the Steelers have to
take that time and possession back by controlling that line
of scrimmage. You're running the football to keep that Bears
offense off the field.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The Bears are great at running the ball, and Caleb
Williams with his legs, adds an extra dimension to that.
What's the stealer's best bet? What kind of strategy formation
wouldever de countering that?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I think this is where you utilize the speed of TJ.
Watt and Nick Herbeck on the outside. Those guys there,
they have to play, you know, a little bit more
simon sound football. Yes, you can rush the quarterback, but
also understand he's capable of escaping it. So I don't
know if the Steelers possibly used a robber type of
mentality where they were you using an extra linebacker to
(08:40):
make sure they're spying him to But again, if you've
used that to spy the quarterback, now you're losing one
in coverage. So I don't they can't do that consistently.
You can use it as a switch up, but ultimately
you just want to try to confuse him as much
as possible because you want to make Caleb uncomfortable. And
if he starts rolling out, then you know, okay, at
least you're getting to the quarterback. Now you just have
(09:00):
to cover downfield.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
On the flip side. Charlie, why won't the Steelers commit
more to the run? I know they've not been partectarly
good at it. They're fourth from bottom, but they dump
out of it pretty quick, don't they.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
They don't have that flow, and that's why you want.
You know, people talk about starting fast, but again that's
why you have the substitution, the substitution the personnel in
those substitution packages, because you want to see how they're
lining up, and that's what a chess match begins. But
if you don't have enough in that first two series,
you don't know what the defense is doing. So now
you don't have, you know, that confidence of being able
(09:36):
to continue to stick with the run because now you're
attempting to get back into the game, create a spark,
and that's where you start to abandon the run game
because that three yards you start to get impatient. You
want to now get those chunk plays, and that's what
you're kind of seeing when that running game doesn't get
going early.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I see this as a big game for both teams.
Charlie and the Bears are on top of that division.
They want to stay there, which is a great division,
the NFC North and the Steelers. If if they lose
in Baltimore wins in which they will against the New
York Jets, then they're tied for first and that's three
game lead evaporated in boy with Houston beating Buffalo last night,
it is a crowded house for the wild Card, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yes, Yes, that's right. You do not want to be in.
You don't want to be in that mess of all
that clouding is there. You want to stay ahead of
the division. And this is a huge game, even though
you know they're in the NFC. But you have to state,
of course, because Buffalo now all of a sudden they're
dropping down and you know, but what does that look
like for a playoff scenarios at the end of the season.
(10:34):
If the Steelers handle of a business, they don't have
to worry about looking elsewhere. But if you get into
that flutter, now Baltimore believes that they can actually get
it done. And if that, if the Stealer, for whatever reason,
lose this game, I firmly believe that at the end
of that season. And this is where you got to
get The schedule makers are a lot of credit at
the NFL that that Week eighteen matchup and those we
get seventeen game, but that Week eighteen matchup at home
(10:57):
will probably be a primetime game. In a winer of
that Baltimore Steelers game gets into playoffs, and I think
the loser is out. So this is why this game
is very critical.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Finally, Charlie, I can't believe that they're gonna put Slay
back in for Pierre after the way both have played.
Slay's really struggled, Pier has been pretty good. What do
you make of that?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Y Connaswitch and Mark. I think you get to the
point where you know the coaches, even if the coaches,
this is what I truly believe, Even if the coaches
think that they want to make a change. I think
front office said, we were listening to you, but we
don't agree. Only because Slay has a guaranteed contract this year.
So there's no way that they're gonna pay someone on
to sit on the sideline that has the guaranteed contract.
(11:38):
So they're gonna fully expect Darius Slay to be out
there this week along with the rest of the season,
only because of that reason.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Charlie, I mean a lot of people are saying that,
but I would respond, they gonna pay him anyway. I mean,
you know, on the bench, on the field, you gotta
pay him. Why not put him where he can do
the least damage.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I'm with you on it. You know, James y are Yes,
he definitely does to be out there a lot more.
This is just the business of football. This is how
it works. Unfortunately, those guys you know, when you look
at management, they're not going to do that. When you
have guarantee contracts off of it, the money oversees anything else, essentially, unfortunately.
But again, this is where we are and the decision
they have to live with, the decision they made at
(12:18):
the beginning of the season. I guarantee in that contract. Now,
this is the point where you truly need him because
this is why you brought him here for that veteran experience.
He had the Super Bowl win as a Super Bowl winner.
Now you want him to now and steal that into
the rest of the roster. And that's why he's here.
That's why I expecting to see him play.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Charlie is always great stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I enjoyed the postgame show every week and we'll talk
again next week.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That's the great Charlie Batch. Check him out on the
post game show. That's not just on DV, that's on
the whole Steelers audio network which is vast. And of
course you hear him in this podcast with Trey Essex,
which is just superb football talk. It's not time for
talk on the fifteens. We want to get your voice.
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We got mister Friday Afternoon. Next segment but if you
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Speaker 6 (14:23):
M hey double m so you always say Mike Tomlin
has final say of a roster construction and a team
had a first round grade on Mason Rudolph that all set.
If they were so enamored with him, why do they
bring him in and then treat him the way they do.
I don't get that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I don't get why they benched him for duck, which
was just a cataclysmically stupid decision. I don't get why
he didn't come back as the starter in twenty twenty
four after winning three games to end the season and
get a pretty mediocre Steeler team in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I don't get it. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I mean, I know why fans don't like him. Fans
don't like him because he looked weak when Garrett swung
the helmet at him. There was the racism accusation, which
I don't think is true.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Nobody else confirmed it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I thought that was pretty rotten for Garrett to just
throw that out there when it just wasn't verified by anybody.
And there's microphones and cameras everywhere on an NFL field.
And then when he got concussed and had to have
the face mask cut off, that became a meme. He
looked weak there too, So, but I don't know if
the coaching staff would hold that against him, if Tomlin would.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I also know.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
He's a trumper. He's a trumper and people don't like that,
not with the Steelers. So did that effect, you know,
how they perceive him as a quarterback. I can't believe
it would. But since there's no good reason for him
not ever getting a fair shake, a shake that he earned,
might I add, I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I can't countot even a stupid reason. What do you think?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
No, I just can't put my finger on it. I mean,
the guy has come in acted professional his entire tenure. Here,
he leads it to the playoffs in twenty three, does
everything ask of him. But somehow there's just it's almost
like I don't get I've never understood the anti Rudolph sentiment.
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Well, I mean, his biggest his biggest weakness always is
going to be that he's not Ben. And he came
in drawing Ben's tenure and Ben didn't want to get him.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
You know, Ben criticized the pick.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He wanted somebody could help him now, and Ben, by
all accounts, was not very helpful to Rudolph. Why that
is I do not know, and too many people said
that though for it not to have some basis In.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Fact, yeah, it just never made sense to me. The
guy's one everything asked of him. And he comes back
to Pittsburgh after a year in Tennessee, uh and plays
well last week. I don't I never, I will never
figure this out. But thank you, super genius.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Thankins eight three three, four one two wxdx the number
to call. Yeah, I mean most of you don't like
Rudolph either, I know that, but you should. He got
in the playoffs in twenty twenty three. You're man because
he lost the playoff game. Right, well, they an't won
a playoff game in a long time, and it wasn't
Mason Rudolph's fault every time. And in twenty twenty three,
(17:06):
he got you there in the first place, when honestly,
you weren't good enough to deserve it, although who gets
there is who gets there. We have an injury report
update some real interesting stuff, especially from Chicago where their
best linebacker, Tremaine Edmonds, who has four picks.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He's out.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
TJ Edwards, linebacker out again, didn't play last week either,
but that's two starting linebackers out the depth chart for Chicago.
For the Steelers, Aaron Rodgers has listed as questionable and
I really do wonder, I really do wonder. Cam Hayward
listed as questionable. That's probably because he's old Sleigh listed
(17:49):
as questionable, that's probably because he sucks. And here's the
guy we should all be just tired of. Alex high
Smith doubtful. This brittle some bitch is always hurt. Not
as much as Corey Trice, but he's always hurt. He
got the money and since then he plays like not
every other game, but not many more than that.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And he plays good when he does play.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
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So Marco starts talking to their mom, Anastasia, and he
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Speaker 2 (20:47):
Thank you for the good news.
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Connecting changes everything at and T this this season.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Joining me now with the second straight week of going
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Friday afternoon, three and two, last week twenty seven and
thirty on the year five and oh, the week before that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
You're coming on strong.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
All right, So first of all, you're you're already a
spreader of the misinformation and disinformation. Okay, two weeks ago
was last week was three and two, The week before
was five and one, and the week before that was
three and two, Three straight weeks of winning. After you
threatened my job, I.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Thought you were, didn't I thought you were three and
three the uh the first week?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
How could I be? Three and three? No, three and two.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Three.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
If you're a spreader, you're a spreader of misinformation.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Spread information, spread anything I want you jerk, But you're
a spreader of misinformation. You get a different information one
second to can be You'll be out.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Of here like a goose.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You threaten me with my job. Say if I don't win.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Shocking you, I took the shock collar off.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Okay, fine, but you threatened me with my job if
I didn't start winning last week. You took me off
the air after two street consecutive winning week, which is
an egregious breach of contract. And my contract is ironclass.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Are your contract takes into account that the entire show
is preempted? What did you want to go on in
the middle of the Penguin game at Sweden to make
your picks?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
There is literally nothing in the contract that talks about preemption.
Your breach of contract, which means, okay, sue, who cares? Okay,
but I'm I'm I'm I want.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
To think a big If you don't know, no, no compromise,
shut up right now and make your pick.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Okay, Listen, if I have another winning week after you
get third in the winning week, I want to be
eligible for are the fans to vote on whether or
not I should get a raise. I think that's a
fair deal.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Have another winning week, then we'll put it this way.
How about this, if you have another winning week, that
will be on the table. We can discuss it some more.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Okay, fine, it's on the table.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Okay, But don't you ever address me disrespectfully again. I
want an apology right now.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Well, you disrespected you by kicking me off the air
last week.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, the Penguins preempted you. The Penguins at a game
but in Stockholm at two pm. That preempted the entire show.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You knit with But but but I had but last
week I had zero doubt, and you preempted. You preempted me,
which is like an egregious preash of contract.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, No, the contra the contract says all you had
to do to stay, for us to be within the
parameters of the deal is to make the picks, which
you did. We called you for the picks. The picks
got on the air.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, okay, so you have Well should we get to the.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Pis Yeah, yes, okay, Steelers game first?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Who do you.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Got I peop? Well, first of all, I'm on a
hot streak and I think that we should be able
to talk. I should be able to talk to my fans.
I'm sure my fans are lighting up the boards right now.
The person waiting to talk to you, Well, that's the
well what should doing is you're that's your algorithm is
suppressing my content with any luck?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, but you can call to talk to mister Friday
afternoon dial eight three three four one two w XDX.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I'm excited about this week because I am a zero
doubt Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
The Steelers are two and a half point underdogs against Chicago.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Who do you like?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Can I make a Can I ask you a question?
And in the interest of fairness, since the Steelers have
not announced the quarterback, can I make a picked contingent
on who the quarterbacks are?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Because I have zero doubts.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Well that's my that's my catchphrase.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
No, no, it's the show's catchphrase. We own all the
intellectual property.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Oh you own all the ID Yes? Oh well that's great.
Well well hey, hey, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, but we don't want you to say make your pick.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Okay, let's let's go. We're gonna I'm assuming this line
is the Bears are minus two and a half because
Rogers is playing and I'm not gonna bet on a
team that has with a guy with a broken wrists.
I'm gonna take the Bears. This is you know, this
is not fair because like I don't really know who's
(25:44):
playing quarterback. I'm assuming Rogers is playing because I think
the line would be higher if Rudolph is playing. But
Rogers is playing with a broken broken wrist. And I
think this is an opportunity where the Bears, who've been
tortured by Aaron Rodgers over the years and he's on
Green Bay, see a lame duck, a hurt quarterback with
(26:05):
a broken wrist on a different team with an opportunity
to to to basically get some payback. And like, you know,
this is this is definitely gonna be Aaron rodgers last
game in Chicago ever, and I think that they're gonna
step up and like they want to deliver to their
fans of victory over the hated evil Aaron Rodgers. I'm
(26:26):
gonna take the Bears minus half.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
First uf No, the Bears, the Bears. You take the
Bears minus two and a half. First off, Aaron Rodgers
isn't evil. He's my favorite Steeler. Second, in private conversation, No, no,
you talked about what.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That's just not true. I never met him. How would
I know that?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Because you don't like the guy.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
He is my favorite Steeler. I resent you casting.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
You hate you hate the Steelers, and.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You hate the Steelers and you feel uncomfortable with his
pick because the quarterback situation correct.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Well, I just don't know what the quarterback situation is.
I'm assuming, based on my knowledge of football the line.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Okay, since you're uncomfortable with the pick, I'm gonna say
it right now.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's the super collider.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
That's a that's that's an egregious Uh, that's egregious malepractice
on your part.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
It's the super collider.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Okay, what is it?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
What's your game of the week? Pick of the week?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Uh? I love the Bengals getting seven against the Patriots
this week at home. Okay, looks it looks. It looks
like the Burrows is going to be playing. Okay, and
there's another game. I don't know, but I'm assuming because
the line went from eight and a half to six
and a half an hour and now to seven and
then the six and a half other puce. Look to
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take that.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The Bengals plus seven against New England. Yes, you know what,
I'm gonna go off the board. That is also the
super Collider. I'm going to super cold of course, Joy,
of course.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I packing Wait a minute, I haven't even talked about
the Daily double yet.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Bear super Collider, Ben super Collider, the rare double super collider.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's never been done this year. Okay, let we gonna
get you. Would you like to talk to one of
your fans. Absolutely, let's go to Rich Rich. You're oh,
mister Friday Afternoon.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
What a great name for my Rich. I'm Rich? Hey,
I love your afternoon? If what's that rich? Are you?
Is that a nickname.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Because you've been freaking guy talk?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Well, his name is Rich. I wonder if that's a
nickname because he's rich taking all my dad Rich?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Hey, I love mister Friday Afternoon.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
If you could preempt him the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, see that you not understand?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What do you think of my unpressing and a decision
to have a double super collider.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
That's that's that's tremendous.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
It is. I'm thank you for the call, Reache. I
am the star of this segment, not you. What's the
Daily Double?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
We're gonna go Okay, so this is we're gonna go
contrict Uh what are you called the regression to the
mean here? So last week the Bills clobbered the Buccaneers
as like a five and a half point favorite at home,
and Allen went off. Then they regressed to the mean.
Allan did nothing this past week against Houston. Baker Mayfield's
(29:30):
a competitor. I did not see this. This team that
Tample is a good team too. They're not gonna go
on the road two weeks in a row and put
up a stinker. The Rams just came up two straight
division games where they beat Timperancis because they beat Seattle.
This is a little bit of a letdown spot. Baker
is gonna come uh, probably keep the back door open.
This should be a closer game than than than it
(29:52):
was against Buffalo. I see maybe the Rams winning this
game by three, or even the Buccaneers upsetting them. I'm
taking the Buccaneers plus seven in this and I have
zero dow.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Okay, that is the daily double Tampa Baylas. So let's
go over the picks. The Bears minus two and a
half against the Steelers, that is the super collider. The
Bengals plus seven against New England that is the rare,
unprecedented I'm giving the people what they want, the Double
Super Collider and then the daily Double, Tampa.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Bay plus.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Correct and all those, all those games that the name
was zero dow Can Is there any more Miss.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Sampseng No, No, they've just dried up, by the way.
How about your home? How about your football team, Sunderland?
Who do they play?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I seek the playing Fulham this week. That is one
of the good, the best managed teams in the Premier League.
And I look for Sutherland to keep of the keep
the winning ways going. And you know, like we have,
you know, we have a personal side deck that are
Sunderland defeats. You know, had a Liverpool in the Premierly
(31:01):
this year, you're gonna owe me one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
That's just not true. We never made that bet.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
We we made that you you you you in a
fit of a fit of ecstasy after Liverpool beat Arsenal.
You made that be with the other verbally.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
When you say bet if if Liverpool Finis had a Sunderland,
you owe me a thousand dollars, then right.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Oh, I never said that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
You there, zero Dad, Screw you, screw Sunderland. You want
to make. I'll give you.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I'll give you two to one onds right now, my
thousand against your five hundred Liverpool finishers out of Sunderland.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
No, I'm already free roll and you said, lishut up.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
No, that's just not true.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Why are you being so nasty this week? You're being
very combative. I don't know why. Why that is. Especially
you're being combative in a week when I'm gonna throw.
I'm on a three week win streak. Why do you
beat something.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Batter because you're a jerk.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Well, at least I'm not a jackass.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It's time goodbye. It's time not to call and ask
Mark anything, and you are a jackass. I have zero doubts.
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Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'm still laughing about that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Uh ceedee. Lamb and George Pickens story. We knew they
got bench for the first series of the Dallas game
at Vegas this past Sunday, but we didn't know why.
It turned out it's because Lamb and Pickens both miss
curfew the night before in Vegas shooting crap with Eric Carlson,
I think, and Lamb admitted to drinking, but denied throwing
(33:52):
up in a garbage can as somebody had reported at
six am, because he can hold his liquor, so it's
okay to drink and miss curfew was long as you're
a functioning alcoholic. I just love football. And then somebody
talked to George Pictus today and he said he had
no beef with the Steelers and no beef with coach Tomlin.
That he could talk to coach tom win out and
have a great conversation. And that's the problem here in Pittsburgh.
(34:14):
No matter how you f things up, Mike Tomlin's always
your buddy. And if you don't think that's a problem,
I could point to a lot of examples that proves
I am right.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Had a funny exchange on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I was talking about the Shador Sanders things, the race
baiting involved in that, and somebody tweeted that the NFL
puts end racism on the end line at games on
the field, like that'll end racism, But of course it's
going to end racism. We're already seeing that that's going
to happen because that is on TV on the end
(34:52):
line at NFL games. People love the NFL. That act
end racism on the end line in the end zone
at NFL games on TV will end racism. I feel
like we're getting close to that already. Any hoodles, ask
Mark anything. Let's go to Cody. Cody, ask Mark anything.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Hey, Mark, just wanted to know the odds of Penn
State hiring Terry Smith for next season.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
You know, as more and more coaches sign new deals
to stay where they're at, which is because schools are
afraid that Penn State's going to proach him, I think
it becomes more and more of a possibility. It would
be a terrible move, just a terrible move. Why would
you hire the guy, the interim guy who was part
of the program that fell apart enough in your estimation
to fire Franklin, which I still say was a bad move.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Terry Smith ain't never.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Been groomed to be the next head coach like Tom
Bradley was when he worked for Joe Paterno. He's just
not a head coach. No offense to him, lovely guy,
He's not a head coach. But then again, who else
they're going to hire?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah, that's the big that's the big Urban Meyer.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Well, that would that would turn the program into a
more scattershot, uh sporadic joke than it already is, and
it already is. That they never should have fired Franklin.
The next coach won't do as good as Franklin. I
will be proven one right about that.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Let's go to Jonah. Jonah ask Mark anything.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
Good?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Damn it's the Madden, I said, Good day, Mark.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
I just want to talk about I feel like, you know,
the Steelers story this season feels already written. I mean,
what's the best they're going.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
To do it?
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Not only it not only feels already written, it feels
like the same old story for the last almost a decade.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Absolutely, And I mean, I don't know, I'm so just
sick of Colin's vanticks, the team vanticks. I feel like
they're an extremely unlikable bunch. But I just wanted to say,
I mean, I'm really, you know, proud of the Penguins
right now, really into just the story lines that are developed.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Because they've finally done something different.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
They moved away from the same old, same old that
said it certainly took come long enough to do it,
didn't it right?
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Absolutely? But just I mean, how awesome is it that
Horcroff I guess is leading the NCAA Division one in
goals right now? I mean, kindle start, and I mean
it's just I think we still need to appreciate.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
What sid doing.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
And I mean, just yeah, I appreciate keep malk and.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can't keep malking, can't block Kindle, can't block cork Coff
for that matter.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But they're gonna I mean, that'll be when they take
a step backwards, when they they cling to the last
vestiges of of not moving forward, which is something they've
indulged for most of the last decade, just like the Steelers.
But but no, I am enthusiastic about what they're doing.
I'm just worried that they might follow it up because
they're hypnotized by the start they've had and would be
(37:51):
hypnotized further by making the playoffs this year, which they
might do. The best thing that could happen for this
team would have been if they would have got a
top five pick, But it doesn't look like that's gonna.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
Happen, right right, No, Yeah, I mean play else would
certainly be the cherry on top. But go Pennce, hopefully
you will this weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
No, the cherry on top would be drafting. God, what's
the damn kid's name of Penn State? McKenna, Gavin McKenna, I.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Am getting old. People had to know I'm not shaken
yet though, Thank Heavens. By the way, you know what
I hate. I gotta get this in there.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Daylight savings time and it gets stark really early. Now
that depresses me, That really depresses me. I'm so sad.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Let's go to a talkback, Hey, Mark, what is it
with all of these offensive tackles constantly jumping early and
not getting called for false starts?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
What say you?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Well, Orlando Brown Junior, you know, like like backpedaled into
his pass blocking stance early, like on half the snaps
in that in that Steelers game against Cincinnati and they
never called it.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I mean, are they just so used to seeing it?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Does it seem something they're used to that they're willing
to let it go.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
And it ain't just Orlando bron Junior, although he makes
it epidemic. He does it so often it's just absurd.
Let's go to a talk back.
Speaker 12 (39:15):
Your guest this week, in analyzing the Steelers seemed to
be in consensus that Aaron Rodgers is the better quarterback
than Mason Rudolph. I'm not going to dispute that, but
my question to you is could Mason Rudolph potentially be
the better quarterback for this particular football team.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
My question to you is, why are you yelling? I'll
do the yelling around here.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I've never suggested Mason Rudolph is a better quarterback than
Aaron Rodgers. I suggested his tools might be sharper, as
arm might be stronger, but Rodgers' guile and his pre
snap and he's not so far behind Mason Rudolph and
the things where I think Rudolph hasn't advantage. So I
would start Rogers, but maybe not at whatever percent he's
at for the Chicago game. Charlie Batch said he would
(39:58):
start Rogers if he's at seven. I would tend to
think that is the bottom end of the percentage that
I would also go with. Don't forget tomorrow. I'm at
Shiloh Playton Poor. I'm at Washington for the River Hunts
game kick off at noon. USL Championship at Stake at Tulsa,
and I'll be there for the Liverpool game before that too.
(40:19):
But leave me alone if you come there to watch that,
and I'm serious about that, leave me the frig alone.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Let's go to Cody. Cody, what's up?
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Mark? So you know we're in. We're in this spot
right now. We got all these old vets on the team.
You know, everyone's talking.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
We got Will Howard, he's our guy.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Nobody's saying that right now. But go ahead, maybe you are?
I mean, is yeah, F John Gruden, F you two
anything else? It's just stupid. I mean, you're stupid. Gruden stupid.
The idea of playing Howard is stupid. I can't emphasize
enough how dumb ass that is. And you are and
John Gruden, let's go to Rick on the south side. Rick,
you're on with double M.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Hey what I have?
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Double M?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
What up? Hey?
Speaker 8 (41:01):
All the years you've been doing this, do you have
a sporting event that you haven't attended yet that you
wish to attend before you leave this earth?
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Champions League final with Liverpool in it World Cup game,
But I'll do that this summer somewhere. That's probably about it.
There's a couple of arenas I'd still like to go to,
but uh, but mostly in terms of events, those are it.
Speaker 8 (41:28):
And I'm I'm sure you've answered this before, but what's
your what's your most memorable memorable sporting event.
Speaker 6 (41:32):
You've been to?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
But I've attended in person, Yes, sir, Penguins clinched the
Stanley Cup at Detroit No.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Maybe the the Penguins beat Chicago Game one of the
ninety two final on Lemieu's last second goal, because huge
game was in the middle of the Penguins biggest one
ever eleven straight playoff games on route to a second
straight up, and I took my mom to the game
because I wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
So that's a big memory. Thank you. Let's go to
a talkback, Hey.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Mark Richard in the truck, who, in your opinions, the
better Steeler backup, Mason Rudolph or Charlie Batch.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Charlie Batch, because Charlie Batch just proved so many times
could come in cold and win, whether you know, after
not playing getting many STAPs in practice. Charlie was just
an incredibly efficient backup. I think Charlie Batch might be
the best stealer backup of all time. Him or Mike
tom Zach those are the two guys who immediately come
(42:37):
to mind for quality in that role.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Okay, get some more calls in.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
We got the Hockey Night Show at five point thirty,
Gonna replay that interview yesterday with Ryan Graves. Gonna talk
hockey with my producer, Tommy Radio. So stick around because
then after that we got the Penguins Network pregame showing
in the Penguins game. I don't forget. Like I said, I'm
a Shiloh. Playton Port Tomorrow noon kickoff for the River
Hans game USL Championship. Then Sunday one pm kickoff at
(43:08):
Marinos American Eatery in Greensburg for the Steelers game one
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