November 3, 2025 • 43 mins
Rob and Max rejoice in the Steelers' massive victory against the Colts Sunday afternoon, and Max shares his memories as the Super Bowl 40 reunion took place over the weekend.
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Com and thank you very much for being with us
on this victory Monday, as the Steelers defeat the Indianapolis
Colts by the score of twenty seven to twenty they
improved to five and three. Improved to four and one
in the conference. By the way, they have one of
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the best conference records. I know our friend Max Start.
So it's like I said, take a little peak ahead
to see where they are in the conference a record.
So the Colts drop the six and one, the Steers
improved a four and one. That's tied for the third
best conference record in the AFC. So if you're starting
to look ahead, glimpse ahead, not even get the halfway
point of the season. Halfway point of the season will
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be halftime against Chargers on Sunday night in La. Chargers
coming off of an impressive victory with all the injuries
that they've had able to win.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We're going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Keeping a close eye this week on Joe alp and
what his injury status is and whether he's able to go.
The Chargers already without Rashawn Slater, but that's for future
editions of the Locker Room. The student's now celebrating this
twenty seven to twenty victory over the Chargers, and again
fueled by the defense, and when I say again the
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three game winning streak that they had earlier when they
held opponents to fourteen point seven points per game, that
seemed to be a distant memory. After they go down
to Cincinnati, Look what Cincinnati's done, by the way, to
everybody's defense that they've played since.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Joe Flacco has been in there.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So let's lose that game thirty three to thirty one
on the road, and then looking like, you know, they've
got green Bay handled. They hold them the seven first
half points last week last Sunday night, looks like they're
in good stead to take the opening kickoff of the
second half, march down and you know, maybe even think
about blowing green Bay out, turning him into a one
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dimensional team, unleashing your pass rush, doing the things that
you do best defensively, they don't score, they get a
three and out, remember the dubious non off side call,
and you know, then you punt it away and the
Packers make some plays down the field, that long broken
play down the right sideline to Tyler Craft on a
third and long, and Craft turns it into a fifty
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nine yard game into Shawn Elliott winds up getting hurt
on that play. Turning point of the game, you know,
maybe it felt like the turning point of the season.
But Kyle Dugger comes in and does a fine job
as far as that on the injury front. But then
of course green Bay started to run away with it.
And now you're looking up and thinking, man, every game,
you know, the students have given up thirty plus points,
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you know, way too many occasions, the Jets, Seattle, Cincinnati,
then green Bay. What is going on with his defense? Well,
the defense rallies in a big way yesterday against the
most explosive offense in the NFL, highest scoring offense in
the NFL, most yards per game in the NFL. On
this Teoder's just able to handle the Indianapolis Colts and
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handle them pretty easily. The Colts came into that game,
they had a really interesting statistic no team and thank
you Matt Williamson for finding this will give.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Credit where credit is due.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No team in the Super Bowl era had gone through
their first eight games of the season and had fewer
than ten sacks and fewer than five turnovers, both of
those things together. Fewer than ten sacks, fewer than five turnovers. Now,
a lot of times those things go together. Like I think,
a lot of turnovers happen, And I know that people
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talk about punching the ball out and teams teach that,
and every time you get a rash of fumbles, everybody
talks about, well we work on that in practice. Well
everybody works on that in practice. Now, maybe some teams
do more than other teams. But I think you get
a lead, you rush the passer, and that's when turnovers happen.
Hurried throws, strip sacks, that sort of thing. And that's
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what we saw yesterday the Steelers defense a couple with
the offense able to get out to that lead. Remember
the special teams play and the the recovery by Eccles
that sets you up in good stead. You're down seven
to nothing, you know, three and out, they march down
and score long drive. It's seven to nothing. You get
another three and out, you punt it away and it
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feels like, right then and there, you can talk about,
you know, sixteen to seven, Hey, right then and there
against the Packers. You score in an opening drive of
the second half, and you might have a different game. Well,
right then and there it felt ominous. Three and out,
long drive, three and out, punted away, you come up
with a fumble recovery by Eckles, and then you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Don't score, and that felt ominous.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But the Steelers were able to find a way and
just a really good all around game. And you talk
about complimentary football. The offense, you know, complimented the defense
because it was the defense that really dominated in this game.
So the Colts win with that statistic nine sacks allowed
and four turnovers on the season, and the Steelers come
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up with five sacks and six turnovers. Five sacks and
six turnovers. Amazing job by the defense. The steer is
offensively able to take advantage. But you look at the
drives that the Steelers put together to score. So they
did have a twelve play fifty six yard drive that
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was member they didn't score right then the Colts booted
away to them, so they're able to go twelve plays
fifty six yards and then they get the turnover, so
they have a two play fourteen yard drive and then
the Boswell field goal at the end of the half.
Twelve play seventy five yard drive. A little bit of
a hurry up mode there. That was good, but seven
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plays fifty six on another drive, six plays six yards,
which let do another Boswell field goal, and you know,
then the Colts score a couple of late scorers to
make it look closer than it was. It really wasn't close,
and that was thanks to the Steelers defense setting up
the Steelers offense in really good position. If you take
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a look at some of the final statistics, the Colts
had three hundred and sixty eight yards of offense. The
Steelers had two hundred and twenty five yards of offense.
That's it, that's all they had. The Colts were five
for five on fourth down, five for five on fourth down.
You know, if you just went down and looked at
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if you cherry picked the statistics first downs, twenty six Colts,
seventeen Steelers. Well, at one point that was ten Colts,
nothing Steelers, and then it became eleven Steelers, ten Colts,
and the Colts i think I said it roneously on
the broadcast yesterday. They did pick up a first down,
and then this Yeeers ripped off some more first downs
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and then it became just about managing the win from
that point on. I mean, the game was forget the
final statistics, because if you look at five for five
on fourth down, If you look at three hundred and
sixty eight yards to total offense to two twenty five,
third down efficiency favored the Colts forty three percent to
thirty three percent for the Steelers technically forty two point
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nine to thirty three and to third but you get
the point forty three to thirty three, so they were
better in that category. But the sacks, the turnovers, the
job the defense did to get the ball back to
the offense, the offense being opportunistic enough, that's all they
had to be. You just had to find a way
to win that game. You have to find a way
to win every game. I've said this many times in
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this area. It doesn't matter if it's three to two.
You just have to win the game. And so the
Steelers were able to find a way to win the game.
And you know, before we get too far down the
road of celebrating a Steelers' victory that improves them to
five and three. We do have to ask Max Starks
what it was like like, Max, to celebrate with your
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compatriots from that Super Bowl championship the won for the
thumb twenty years ago. There was alumni weekend and by
the way, great job. You know if you wonder you
know how a big guy like Max can move, you know,
Max moved quickly. He was back before they kicked it
off in the second half. He got right there. He
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was back in the booth. That's good movement. Max Jarks,
What was it like hanging out with your old buddies.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, I had to tell you, guys, it was awesome.
It was a great experience. You know, you relive a
lot of memories, you know, and it was it was
special to kind of share some moments and then you know,
see some faces that I hadn't seen in a very
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long time. I mean had been almost you know, it
was ten years for some guys, and some might have
been a little bit longer because they didn't make that
ten year. So it was it was it was really
awesome to see a lot of the guys there. Obviously
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we didn't have our full compliment or a majority. You know,
we had a majority compliment. But you know, guys like Hines,
guys like Antoine Randall, l guys liked Shay Townsend, Guys
like Kendall Simmons, those guys, those those guys are those
guys are shaping the future of football on the college
at and pro level. You know, for Hines, he's out
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of Arizona State as a wide receivers coach. Kendall Simmons
is the is the offensive line coach at Middle Tennessee State.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
L is over.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Antoine Randall is over at Chicago Bears, so we'll see
him in November.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
He can't. He went over with Ben Johnson and his staff.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
As a wide receivers coach, last to head coach, and
j Shaye Townsend is a defensive backs coach with Jacksonville.
So I mean, you know, we have guys that are
doing some important things. I know there's a couple more
than I'm forgetting, but it was it was just really special.
And you know, this Super Bowl is a little bit
different for me, Rob because.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
This was the one where.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I was really the young guy, you know, and I
had a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Of veterans, a lot of older guys, So I hung
a little bit more with the defense than I did
the offense, just because of the virtue of the age
of guys that you know, we're there because you know,
Alan Fanica, Marvel Smith, Kendall Simmons, Jeff Hardings, you know,
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Barrett Brooks. All these dudes were married with children, and
I'm just this young twenty to twenty three year old
that does not can't relate to any of that stuff.
So you know, I've come home. I'm hanging out by myself.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So defensive guys were younger in age for a majority
of them, So those are the guys I was really
close with, you know, Ike Taylor, Troy Polamalu, Brian McFadden
and and of course you know Trey Essex was was
it was a rookie that year. But it was just
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it was so great to see all of those guys
and to hang with all of them briefly, honestly, it
was it was It was brief because I didn't get
in until late Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
I went up and met at the end of.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Where the kind of post reception was and saw the
guys there. They woke up in the morning had had
some breakfasts, saw a couple more people went did the
team photo saw saw saw the compliment of guys that
were going to be there. So it was nice see
you know, Dravis Kirsky's chid O Wolmas, Sean Morey and
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Jeff Reid, then some other guys and then rushed after
that tunnel and get back up and so it was
just it was a lot of a.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Lot of those emotions.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But man, what the Steelers did yesterday, I mean, who
needed fireworks for the national anthem?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Rob right?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well before we get back, I just have to ask
you one more question Max about because look, man, for fans,
what you guys accomplished is steepedon lore. You know, Wes
was talking about we did. Wes and I went and
did a radio show at the alumni dinner, and Wes
was saying, that was my team. You know, I'm old
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enough that the seventies are closer to my team. And
then then you know, because I remember I remember those teams.
I remember those from the seventies. Uh you know, so
and Wes like is like, hey man, that two thousand
and five team, that was my team, and it was
it was a tremendous run. It was just so much
fun to watch, and I was at that Super Bowl
to covering it, so that was I'll take that one
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too as my team.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I'm gonna I'm gonna take I'm gonna take that one too.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But you know, I was interviewing some of the guys
and a couple of them, and I only asked this
question to a couple of them about what they missed
because you know, you hear in other sports about you know, hey,
you know I missed the camaraderie in the locker room
and all that stuff. But these guys want to step
further because football was so hard and so physically demanding.
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They said, I don't miss the game. I don't miss
the game. I missed the guys.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Do you feel the same way.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Do you miss the game too, or is it basically
the guys or is it both.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It two things can be true at the same time.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That's right, And I missed parts of the game, you know,
I do miss that feeling of coming into a stadium
on game day and getting dressed and getting ready and
going through my ritual to get to get to you know,
the opportunity to be on the field. I miss that.
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I'm but you're right. I miss the cabaradie of the
locker room. I miss the kind of goal setting, goal achieving,
similar minded, different backgrounds, competitiveness, innately competitiveness in this locker room.
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You know, who knows if you throw a ping pong
table in a room of athletes, it's going to turn
into a war of ping pong. So, I mean, we
set up a trash can with a with with with
one of the mesh bagnets, and we made trashketball, we
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shuffl ward table put in competition.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
It's just it was beautiful to see that because.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
There's no mal intent, there was no ego with I mean,
it was a little bit of ego for bragging rights,
but in the moment, you just you steer clear because
you knew that. You know, this competition is gonna happen
whether you liked it or not, and the result mattered
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for those parties involved. But I you know, I just
I remember all of these moments and it just built
the character of our team.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
And that's why, you know, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I can't hang with anybody and anybody can hang with
me because we were just one team.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
There was no segment.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
There was no defensive and offensive side, and then we
all made fun of the specialties. You guys, none of that,
I mean, you know it was it was, Hey, you're
my brother, you're my teammate. I got your back, and
at practice, I'm gonna try and embarrass you. But in
the games, I got your back right right out in public,
I got your back. But in these four walls, you know,
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we can, we can RaSE each other, We could, we
could go at each other because we also know that
we're prepping ourselves. We're prepping for the competition and their
level of the you know, competition. We had to make
sure that ours shines the brightest and we and I
think that's something that made that team special was we
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fought so hard with each other, but the second somebody
else came in the yard, we wanted to whoop them
so bad. And that's that familiar aspect of it having
that kind of play out in real life that if
one gets hurt or anything, everybody is on it is
on their neck, that's on the field, and that's that
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that that was, that was the beauty of really the
secret saf Star teams.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Fun stuff, and that's a fun one team for fans
to remember and great to see the celebration. Great to
see Max down there as part of the celebration. Great
to have him with me in the broadcast booth as well,
along with Missy Matthews. As the Steelers defeat the Colts
twenty seven to twenty to improve to five and three,
maybe change the perception of where the Steelers are currently
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in the grand scheme of the AFC. Much much much
to get to following this twenty seven to twenty victory
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Root and the Steelers have taken the lead.
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Speaker 2 (18:23):
Max.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That was a very rapid two play drive because it
put the Steelers up fourteen to seven. You know, the
Steelers had marched down the field, scored a touchdown, twelve
play fifty six yard drive. And remember the events that
happened in that game. And I was mentioning this at
the top of the show, Max that the game had
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an ominous feel. It's funny how a play here or
play there, Like Sunday night. I keep going back to
this Sunday night against Green Bay. You're up sixteen to
seven at the half. If you take the opening kickoff
of the second half, and remember this, Steelers got the
ball first. If you take a nice, leisurely six minute
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drive and you go up twenty three to seven, that
game might be over right now. Green Bay is one dimensional.
They're not running the football. You don't have to worry
about them running the football. You can unleash your pass rush,
you can do what you want to defensively. It's a
totally different field now, So I thought, I'm like, man,
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they might just blow these guys out on Sunday night.
Then yesterday the Colts. You get the ball first, right,
you know you have the choice, you'd say, we're going
to take the ball. So you take the ball three
and out, you kick it away to them. They march
down the field and score a touchdown like they've done
against everybody else. And now you're reminded, oh boy, this
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is the most explosive offense in football yardage wise and
point wise. This is a Steelers defense that has struggled lately,
giving up thirty or more points in back to back games.
They don't think only done that once. I think in
the Super Bowl era. This is not a good feel.
And then you go three and out again and you
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punt it away and you're.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Still you're feeling badly.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
As the ball leaves correleas weightman's foot, you're thinking, uh, oh,
are they going to march down the field again and
make it fourteen to nothing? And then they get the
ball to begin the second half. You already your mind
starting to ricochet rabbit off into different you know, awful
things that could happen. Then you recover the fumble and
you're like, okay, here we go, man, And then you
don't score on a fourth down play from inside to five,
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and then those ominous thoughts come again. But then eventually
it settles. You go on the long drive and then
you get the turnover, and what a story the turnovers were.
But just emotionally, Max, you know, play here, play there.
It just seems every game, even blowouts, come down to
three or four plays that could turn the tide in
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either direction. They didn't turn the tide for the Stuarts
last Sunday night, and then the Steers defense not only
turned to tide, they turned it again and again. They
they they moved the banks of the river. They didn't
just stem the tide, man, they did some serious irrigation
work in this game.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh, they redirected everything. And and this game was, I mean,
it was.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
It was. It was a roller coaster. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I think about you know what it reminds me of,
and it might be it might be the steel curt
at Kennywood, Like that's that's kind of what the emotions
felt like.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
It was up.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
It was down big drops at the beginning of the game,
but then the highs of the turnovers, and then you
had the offense taking over it.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
But they you had this team seemingly.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Driving on us multiple times, Kinger multiple times, and US
cat territory, and a play happened that first TJ Watt
strip sack bubble recovery. Oh my god, how timely was
that because we were worried, like, man, okay, they're about
to go fourteen oh when and we don't have an answer,
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And in ninety six, hold my gatorade, I'll be back,
and he comes up with a play had not been
able to generate much in the last couple of games,
and we're like, where is he? You know, this defense
and everything else, and man, he just absolutely whipped the
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block and came free. Daniel Jones is thinking, thinking, thinking,
can I get this ball up? And the second he
started to cock his arm back, boom. TJ was there,
stripped it, took it right out of his hands, and
the Steelers we were back in business. Offense was rejuvenated,
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and then we get down there and we don't do
anything with it, and then you're like, whoa, okay, what's
going on here? And then after that another play happens
and then boom, you get a Peyton Wilson. Man that
Peyton Wilson pick. What a play, what a play? He
was everywhere yesterday he sure was, Oh my gosh, and
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so you got all of these feelings. But I will
say this for the defense, double tip of the Cap,
double gold stars on the day, double donuts on this
victory Donut Monday double Donut Award goes to Peyton Wilson.
You get too bud, go glazed and then you know,
you know, get a little crazy, gets some sprinkles, get
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a custard field.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
But that was a two donut performance for him, and
it was just phenomenal to watch because.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't know if you guys saw this. There was apparently.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Before the game today in the parking lot or yesterday
before the game yesterday in the parking lot, there was
a fan that pulled out a casket and had and
had and was set and was burning the death of
the Steelers defense. They had a casket, they had everything.
It was black, it was in black and gold. I
had the Steelers defense logo in there, and people were
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coming by and saying prayers for them, and so I
saw this, said meme, and you know, you know, you
know I didn't response.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I had had to go into the comment section.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I had to do this, did you this?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
This is this controlling?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And I put a photo of yoko Zuna trying to
close the casket on the Undertaker in a wrestling match,
and it shows before the Duke has slammed the castle
that Undertaker has has has come up out of the
casket and has Yokozuna and a choke hold.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I put that on there.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I was like, yes, because this defense came alive, like
the Undertaker and you know in a WrestleMania match, all right,
and they and they and they were and and and
it went crazy. I mean, just think about this King,
you're you know, this squad couldn't find a sack, couldn't
find a turnover. They were getting near guys. They weren't
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to get here guys at that moment, and everybody was
eating let let's Alex Hysmith had a sack.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
T J.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Watt had his sack, Keanu Bitten had a sack. I
mean guys were getting after him. And then the turnovers.
I mean Jack Sawyer gets an interception, Peyton Wilson gets
an interception. I mean, you get the you get the strip.
I mean, it was just we were looking around and
we're trying to figure out, like who would be our
player of the game, right, you know, and and then
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little Peas coming off and having the ultimate you know,
saving play that stopped the momentum at the end of
the game and put the tourniquet on and stop stop
the quote unquote bleeding at the end of the game
of the Colts getting back into it. It was just, man,
it was phenomenal to watch.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
It was. It was one for the ages and for
us as the.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
You know, for my alumni hat watching that a Steeler
legend hat.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
It was. It was. It was a fantastic game to be.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Honored at, right, you know, not only does your team win,
but your team the way they played throughout that game.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Was inspiring and.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Again and again, and it gave me touches of our
old squad, you know, tenacious, aggressive, physically imposing and just
absolutely everything coming in bunches for the good And that
was pretty remarkable to watch.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Complimentary football.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
We could talk about a major play in all three
phases of the game, Kinger and we and we still
wouldn't do a justice. That's how good this team was.
That's how great this team can be. We've seen it
now firsthand. It was. It was a thing of beauty.
It looked like the three game win streak that they
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were on just a few weeks ago. That was the
same tenasty That was the same showing upness that you
wanted to see. And I'm gonna put this out here.
Kicker five looks good at safety, five looks good at
free safety.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He does, he does, he does.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Whoa hey, hey hey. He was everywhere everywhere and that
was that was fun to watch. And then the three
linebacker looked that they kept deploying, not the three outside linebacker. Look,
we've seen that before, and they did do that right.
You had High Smith, TJ. Wadeen and and Nick Herbig
out there, but Malik Harrison, Peyton Wilson, and Patrick Queen
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out on the field at the same time. There was
no question in my mind the intent of the day
was stopping Jonathan Taylor and forcing the ball into Daniel
Jones's hand. Like we talked about in the pregame broadcast.
That was one of my keys. You've got to pick
your poison, and I would pick the ground poison and
force and force Daniel Jones to beat you through the air,
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and early on it looked like, oh my god, that
was a bad decision. Remember I said that up in
the booth, oh my god, it's a bad decision. But
did just give it some time? Give it some time.
Five of those six turnovers directly responsible by Daniel Jones,
two fumbles that ended in recoveries on our end, three interceptions.
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The only one that wasn't his was the muff punt.
That was the only one that wasn't his. The other
five all him. And think about that, six, six of them.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Really we couldn't find half a one.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I made the I made this point thanks to Matt
Williamson on an earlier show and actually in the first
second to this one, Max that the Colts had been
the first team in the Super Bowl era to get
through eight games and have fewer than ten sacks and
fewer than five turnovers. And you got five sacks and
six turnovers. S that's incredible, more turnovers than they'd had
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all season in one game and more than half the
sacks it allowed for the rest of the season in
one game.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, that's that's that's so wild. That's so wild when
you think about that and you know, I'm just I'm
really ecstatic. I'm really proud of them, happy for them,
you know, and like you said on Alumni Day, and
of course you know, to have Joey Porter Senior aka
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Peas James Ferrier aka pot Dog in the huddle breakdown,
that's that's gotta be special. I mean, you're talking about
two captains on that defense. Well, we were rocking and rolling.
So for them, I know, there was an immense amount
of pride. You know, we saw it in the stadium
with with Peasy because they as soon as he got
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the intercession, they went to the camera and they and
they shot Joey jumping up and down screaming for his son.
And that's what it's all about. I mean, think about
the legacy, the history all kind of encapsulated in that
game yesterday and all those feelings and the nostalgia that
it must have brought a lot of Steeler fans yesterday
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seeing our squad on the field, but then seeing the
current squad on that field and you're gett You're you
got the same type of fuzzies, you know, the same
type of warm feeling. I mean, it was just it
was electric. I mean, it was a it was a
it was a one of a kind experience. I mean,
I know we came back for the ten year. That
was cool. But I think being in this position that
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I'm in now and they're still having that part, it's
very it's very humbling, to say the least. I am
blessed beyond measure, and I don't take that for granted.
I thank God every day for you know, the job
that I get to do, the job that you know
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that we get to do. I should say that we
get to do together not only on the radio on
a show like this, but also on game day and
knowing that we're the living historians of Steeler history is
a pretty cool responsibility. It's a pretty cool experience. But
also know that as a part of that Steeler history,
you know, and and the success of a franchise, it's
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just it's it can be overwhelming if you sit there
and really absorb all of it.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
But I I you know, I'm not here to do that.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
But I am here to show my gratitude, to show
my to show my thankfulness for where I'm at and
what I got to experience. I mean, this season has
been phenomenal in my first year and It's only gonna
get better. And that's what's crazy, you know. You know,
we get to do our first international game. I get
to comeback celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Super Bowl forty,
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our first as a unit fit, you know, fifth one
for the Steelers organization. And yeah, I mean, you know,
I'm getting goosebumps just talking about as I'm looking at
and I'm talking about this because it is special. It
is something not to be taken for granted.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Agreed, one hundred percent. Steve has win twenty seven to twenty.
We have so much to talk about. I think we're
going to be talking a lot about this defense over
the next couple of days, and take a glance at
the Chargers, maybe a glance because of a significant potential
injury on the team, a team that has already been
banged up, the importance of this game coming up. Of course,
we got all week to talk about that matchup, and
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we'll dive into it more. But lots to get to
when we continue in the Locker Room, presented by our
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Speaker 1 (33:07):
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Speaker 3 (33:33):
And thanks very much for being with us as we
continue to look back at a tremendous effort by the
Pittsburgh Steelers, and Max just you have to look at
the Steelers defense and the job that they did. And
by the way, I did mention briefly a potential injury.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
For the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You know, I started last night just taking a sneak
peek ahead to the Chargers. And you know, we all
knew about Rashaun Slay. We found out we were calling
the game yesterday that Joe Joe Joe alt Deleite, one
of the great nicknames of all time, Indiana Jones was
pretty good to you. But but again, as we said yesterday,
he met his temple at doom yesterday in an Acrosser stadium.
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But and we can't agree on that, Max, right, that
that is the worst of the Indiana Jones movies At
least the.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Original three, the lesser, the lesser, the lesser. Yeah, they did.
They did a fourth one. But you can't that. You
can't put that in the same group, right, you can't
put that in.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
No, they did.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
No, they did two of them. Remember more one after that?
I thought they did two more after that. There was
the one after the Crystal Skull thing. It was that
Shilah buff one and then there I thought there was
another one.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I just remember the Shilah buff One.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
See, now I got to do here.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
So no, no, no, no, no, no, you know what.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You let me take care of that, and then I
will be because I'm going to ask you a question
about something, so you know, look, and I just want
to make sure that Hey, guys, there were five movies
Indiana Jones, five Cats, Indiana Jones, and the Dial of
Something or another and the Dial of Destiny.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
There we go. Yeah, I watched.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'd be shocked if I didn't see.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
It came out two years it came out two years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I'd be shocked if I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
It's possible I didn't see it, you know, because the
first one is one of my all time favorite movies.
Right as the lost art, one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Anyway, where were we?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Oh yeah, so uh the injuries to the to the Chargers,
And let me just say this. You know, I know
that Mike Tomlin doesn't do this. Mike Tomlin says, you know,
next man up, that's the job. But for Steelers fans saying, oh,
this guy's hurt, that guy's hurt, this guy's shirt. First
of all, nobody around the rest of the league cares. Secondly,
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that can't be an excuse or a reason even for
you losing a game, even in game. You know, the
ability to adjust to those things is what makes a
good coaching staff and what makes a good locker room, right,
you know, looking around, Okay, next guy, app let's go here.
The expectations, leadership, all those things. So nobody cares. If
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players on the Sea we can tell. I think Deshaun
Ellie's a phenomenal player. I've said this on the air
many times. He's one of my favorite players on the Steelers.
I said that before this year, when I think his
value increased even more because of the Minka Fitzpatrick trade.
You know, I love his game, but he can't be
a reason you lose, right, we just got to find
a way. Others have to get a little incrementally better
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than next guy. App's got to be able to do
his job, so on and so forth. You look at
this Chargers team, man, I mean they are without both
of their starting tackles, potentially Joe Walt for the rest
of the for this game coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
We don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I have not heard an official designation on Joe Walt's injury.
They signed with Shaun Slater, their left tackle, to a
huge deal, and I think was it the next day
he got hurt in camp. I mean it was really
soon after signing that he's out for the year. Joe Alt,
who is Joe All at the league, Joe Joe dealed All.
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Joe Alt, who is a had a sensational rookie season,
is an incredible right tackle. They moved him to left tackle. Well,
he exited yesterday's game. You want to run the football
behind an imposing offensive line. That's what happens to two
superstars out And then you signed Najie Harris. He has
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a freak accident, he gets back in, he's out for
the year. Remember he never missed a game with the Steelers,
and now you have Omary and Hampton, their rookie draft choice,
first round pick for Hampton, first round pick. He's out.
I don't think he'll be back Sunday. At least he's
designated to return. And here they are, and they and
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they're in. They find themselves right in the thick of
the playoff race. So the alt injury would be significant.
It is, you know, hopefully something that Steelers can take
advantage of with the pass rush. You know, Herbert has
been among the leaders or may still be the league
leader in passing yardage. We'll talk more about the Chargers
coming up, but I wanted to mention the injury to
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all and circle back to the fact that the Steelers
had a bunch of injuries. Kyle Dugger comes in, new guy.
He played all but one snap on defense, nine percent
of the snaps. You know, Cole Hulk them out, Chuck
Clark out, Deshaun Elliott out, on and on and on
with players out, and the Steelers defense was able to
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not use that as a crutch or as an excuse
and really just throttle the number one offense in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Listen, another one man's misforce is another man's treasure. And
you know, if you don't have Cole and Chuck out
that are sick, we lose, Like you said, Deshaun Elliott,
potentially for the season. That defense signs Kyle Duggar and
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he's on the field. Four days later, Jalen Ramsey moves
to free safety, elevated role for James Pierre. And you
know you have Malik Harrison that gets activated off of
the I R and he he gets his first you know,
real snaps this season. It was just it was phenomenal
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watch and then we had some guys that got dinged
up endgame that came back. Darius Slay went out, came back,
you know, happy for the resilience of him.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
Hopefully you know whatever happened.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
That you know, he can get treatment this week before
we get ready to fly out West. They they did
look at it as a negative. They looked at each other,
Manda man I told you this. They had to make
a decision who they were going to be and they
had to have that confidence and they also had to
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have that trust in each other. And for the words
that carried you know by Captain Cam this week talking
about not knowing if they'd have the fight or not,
and not knowing. I think they showed you they could fight.
They can fight, and guess what, they can knock you out.
That's what they showed. They can knock you out. And
I don't know how five sacks and six interceptions is
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not a knockout blow to a lot of teams.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
This was.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Phenomenal effort offensively answering the call from a sluggish start,
trying to.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
Change things up.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
But I would argue I'd take that sluggish start if
I knew if it was going to produce the way
that it did afterwards it was. It was great to wash. Now,
I will make my little bit of a critique for
the offense. Possess the ball longer so your defense could rest. Now, granted,
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there was a lot of short fields because of the
interceptions like that Peyton Wilson won.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
I mean, yeah, what fifty maybe fifteen.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yards ago, so that really not really easy to do
that one. But you know, in those longer field opportunities,
I mean you forced a team that doesn't like the punt.
The punters that doesn't even qualify for his punting average
because he's punted so few times at one point.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
I don't think they watched his jersey for a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah, he didn't punch on the third game of the season.
He would be he did, he would have been the
NFL's leader net punting average. And he is the Colt
regular punter. And he's been there every game, you know,
holding on kicks and stuff. He didn't have enough punch
to qualify. That's how that's how infrequently he's punted, and
he's been there all year.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Uh So, yeah, by the way.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
And hold the thought in the offense, because that's one
I want to talk about. But in case you're wondering
about that fifth Indiana Jones movie, and I know everybody
out there is like, yeah, I really want to know
more about that.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Madge Michelson is the bad guy and by all accounts,
by the way, a really good guy, you know, but
he's always the villain always.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I wonder what that's like, Hey, y, we need a
bad guy.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
MADD's come on, okay, you know, uh, because every you know,
you it's hard not to like kind of personify these
actors and think, oh he's he must be it. He's
a bad guy, and you know, he's a great guy
in real life. He just always has to play the
bad guy anyway. He's the bad guy in the fifth movie.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Type cast.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
He's type cast, but you know what, he's probably got
a nice house back there in Denmark. And uh and
all that stuff from being type cast, and question hopefully
kept kept a good sense of humor about it as well.
So this Steelers win and uh yeah we uh justin
by the way, was showed me that casket.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I finally got it a look at it. I had
not seen that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
But as uh as Mark I think was Mark Twain
once said, the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
So yeah, he read his own oh bit in the paper.
He's like, wait a minute, I'm still alive. So the
studs still alive as well. On that defense, forget the cast,
get great performance by the d We're gonna jump into
that and again a little more delving into what the
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students offense can do to help the Steelers defense when
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Com and thank you very much for being with us
on this victory Monday, as the Steelers defeat the Indianapolis
Colts by the score of twenty seven to twenty they
improved to five and three. Improved to four and one
in the conference. By the way, they have one of
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the best conference records. I know our friend Max Start.
So it's like I said, take a little peak ahead
to see where they are in the conference a record.
So the Colts drop the six and one, the Steers
improved a four and one. That's tied for the third
best conference record in the AFC. So if you're starting
to look ahead, glimpse ahead, not even get the halfway
point of the season. Halfway point of the season will
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be halftime against Chargers on Sunday night in La. Chargers
coming off of an impressive victory with all the injuries
that they've had able to win.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We're going to be.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Keeping a close eye this week on Joe alp and
what his injury status is and whether he's able to go.
The Chargers already without Rashawn Slater, but that's for future
editions of the Locker Room. The student's now celebrating this
twenty seven to twenty victory over the Chargers, and again
fueled by the defense, and when I say again the
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three game winning streak that they had earlier when they
held opponents to fourteen point seven points per game, that
seemed to be a distant memory. After they go down
to Cincinnati, Look what Cincinnati's done, by the way, to
everybody's defense that they've played since.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Joe Flacco has been in there.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So let's lose that game thirty three to thirty one
on the road, and then looking like, you know, they've
got green Bay handled. They hold them the seven first
half points last week last Sunday night, looks like they're
in good stead to take the opening kickoff of the
second half, march down and you know, maybe even think
about blowing green Bay out, turning him into a one
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dimensional team, unleashing your pass rush, doing the things that
you do best defensively, they don't score, they get a
three and out, remember the dubious non off side call,
and you know, then you punt it away and the
Packers make some plays down the field, that long broken
play down the right sideline to Tyler Craft on a
third and long, and Craft turns it into a fifty
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nine yard game into Shawn Elliott winds up getting hurt
on that play. Turning point of the game, you know,
maybe it felt like the turning point of the season.
But Kyle Dugger comes in and does a fine job
as far as that on the injury front. But then
of course green Bay started to run away with it.
And now you're looking up and thinking, man, every game,
you know, the students have given up thirty plus points,
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you know, way too many occasions, the Jets, Seattle, Cincinnati,
then green Bay. What is going on with his defense? Well,
the defense rallies in a big way yesterday against the
most explosive offense in the NFL, highest scoring offense in
the NFL, most yards per game in the NFL. On
this Teoder's just able to handle the Indianapolis Colts and
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handle them pretty easily. The Colts came into that game,
they had a really interesting statistic no team and thank
you Matt Williamson for finding this will give.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Credit where credit is due.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No team in the Super Bowl era had gone through
their first eight games of the season and had fewer
than ten sacks and fewer than five turnovers, both of
those things together. Fewer than ten sacks, fewer than five turnovers. Now,
a lot of times those things go together. Like I think,
a lot of turnovers happen, And I know that people
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talk about punching the ball out and teams teach that,
and every time you get a rash of fumbles, everybody
talks about, well we work on that in practice. Well
everybody works on that in practice. Now, maybe some teams
do more than other teams. But I think you get
a lead, you rush the passer, and that's when turnovers happen.
Hurried throws, strip sacks, that sort of thing. And that's
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what we saw yesterday the Steelers defense a couple with
the offense able to get out to that lead. Remember
the special teams play and the the recovery by Eccles
that sets you up in good stead. You're down seven
to nothing, you know, three and out, they march down
and score long drive. It's seven to nothing. You get
another three and out, you punt it away and it
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feels like, right then and there, you can talk about,
you know, sixteen to seven, Hey, right then and there
against the Packers. You score in an opening drive of
the second half, and you might have a different game. Well,
right then and there it felt ominous. Three and out,
long drive, three and out, punted away, you come up
with a fumble recovery by Eckles, and then you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Don't score, and that felt ominous.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
But the Steelers were able to find a way and
just a really good all around game. And you talk
about complimentary football. The offense, you know, complimented the defense
because it was the defense that really dominated in this game.
So the Colts win with that statistic nine sacks allowed
and four turnovers on the season, and the Steelers come
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up with five sacks and six turnovers. Five sacks and
six turnovers. Amazing job by the defense. The steer is
offensively able to take advantage. But you look at the
drives that the Steelers put together to score. So they
did have a twelve play fifty six yard drive that
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was member they didn't score right then the Colts booted
away to them, so they're able to go twelve plays
fifty six yards and then they get the turnover, so
they have a two play fourteen yard drive and then
the Boswell field goal at the end of the half.
Twelve play seventy five yard drive. A little bit of
a hurry up mode there. That was good, but seven
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plays fifty six on another drive, six plays six yards,
which let do another Boswell field goal, and you know,
then the Colts score a couple of late scorers to
make it look closer than it was. It really wasn't close,
and that was thanks to the Steelers defense setting up
the Steelers offense in really good position. If you take
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a look at some of the final statistics, the Colts
had three hundred and sixty eight yards of offense. The
Steelers had two hundred and twenty five yards of offense.
That's it, that's all they had. The Colts were five
for five on fourth down, five for five on fourth down.
You know, if you just went down and looked at
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if you cherry picked the statistics first downs, twenty six Colts,
seventeen Steelers. Well, at one point that was ten Colts,
nothing Steelers, and then it became eleven Steelers, ten Colts,
and the Colts i think I said it roneously on
the broadcast yesterday. They did pick up a first down,
and then this Yeeers ripped off some more first downs
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and then it became just about managing the win from
that point on. I mean, the game was forget the
final statistics, because if you look at five for five
on fourth down, If you look at three hundred and
sixty eight yards to total offense to two twenty five,
third down efficiency favored the Colts forty three percent to
thirty three percent for the Steelers technically forty two point
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nine to thirty three and to third but you get
the point forty three to thirty three, so they were
better in that category. But the sacks, the turnovers, the
job the defense did to get the ball back to
the offense, the offense being opportunistic enough, that's all they
had to be. You just had to find a way
to win that game. You have to find a way
to win every game. I've said this many times in
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this area. It doesn't matter if it's three to two.
You just have to win the game. And so the
Steelers were able to find a way to win the game.
And you know, before we get too far down the
road of celebrating a Steelers' victory that improves them to
five and three. We do have to ask Max Starks
what it was like like, Max, to celebrate with your
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compatriots from that Super Bowl championship the won for the
thumb twenty years ago. There was alumni weekend and by
the way, great job. You know if you wonder you
know how a big guy like Max can move, you know,
Max moved quickly. He was back before they kicked it
off in the second half. He got right there. He
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was back in the booth. That's good movement. Max Jarks,
What was it like hanging out with your old buddies.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, I had to tell you, guys, it was awesome.
It was a great experience. You know, you relive a
lot of memories, you know, and it was it was
special to kind of share some moments and then you know,
see some faces that I hadn't seen in a very
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long time. I mean had been almost you know, it
was ten years for some guys, and some might have
been a little bit longer because they didn't make that
ten year. So it was it was it was really
awesome to see a lot of the guys there. Obviously
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we didn't have our full compliment or a majority. You know,
we had a majority compliment. But you know, guys like Hines,
guys like Antoine Randall, l guys liked Shay Townsend, Guys
like Kendall Simmons, those guys, those those guys are those
guys are shaping the future of football on the college
at and pro level. You know, for Hines, he's out
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of Arizona State as a wide receivers coach. Kendall Simmons
is the is the offensive line coach at Middle Tennessee State.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
L is over.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Antoine Randall is over at Chicago Bears, so we'll see
him in November.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
He can't. He went over with Ben Johnson and his staff.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
As a wide receivers coach, last to head coach, and
j Shaye Townsend is a defensive backs coach with Jacksonville.
So I mean, you know, we have guys that are
doing some important things. I know there's a couple more
than I'm forgetting, but it was it was just really special.
And you know, this Super Bowl is a little bit
different for me, Rob because.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
This was the one where.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I was really the young guy, you know, and I
had a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Of veterans, a lot of older guys, So I hung
a little bit more with the defense than I did
the offense, just because of the virtue of the age
of guys that you know, we're there because you know,
Alan Fanica, Marvel Smith, Kendall Simmons, Jeff Hardings, you know,
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Barrett Brooks. All these dudes were married with children, and
I'm just this young twenty to twenty three year old
that does not can't relate to any of that stuff.
So you know, I've come home. I'm hanging out by myself.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
So defensive guys were younger in age for a majority
of them, So those are the guys I was really
close with, you know, Ike Taylor, Troy Polamalu, Brian McFadden
and and of course you know Trey Essex was was
it was a rookie that year. But it was just
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it was so great to see all of those guys
and to hang with all of them briefly, honestly, it
was it was It was brief because I didn't get
in until late Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
I went up and met at the end of.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Where the kind of post reception was and saw the
guys there. They woke up in the morning had had
some breakfasts, saw a couple more people went did the
team photo saw saw saw the compliment of guys that
were going to be there. So it was nice see
you know, Dravis Kirsky's chid O Wolmas, Sean Morey and
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Jeff Reid, then some other guys and then rushed after
that tunnel and get back up and so it was
just it was a lot of a.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Lot of those emotions.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But man, what the Steelers did yesterday, I mean, who
needed fireworks for the national anthem?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Rob right?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well before we get back, I just have to ask
you one more question Max about because look, man, for fans,
what you guys accomplished is steepedon lore. You know, Wes
was talking about we did. Wes and I went and
did a radio show at the alumni dinner, and Wes
was saying, that was my team. You know, I'm old
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enough that the seventies are closer to my team. And
then then you know, because I remember I remember those teams.
I remember those from the seventies. Uh you know, so
and Wes like is like, hey man, that two thousand
and five team, that was my team, and it was
it was a tremendous run. It was just so much
fun to watch, and I was at that Super Bowl
to covering it, so that was I'll take that one
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too as my team.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I'm gonna I'm gonna take I'm gonna take that one too.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
But you know, I was interviewing some of the guys
and a couple of them, and I only asked this
question to a couple of them about what they missed
because you know, you hear in other sports about you know, hey,
you know I missed the camaraderie in the locker room
and all that stuff. But these guys want to step
further because football was so hard and so physically demanding.
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They said, I don't miss the game. I don't miss
the game. I missed the guys.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Do you feel the same way.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Do you miss the game too, or is it basically
the guys or is it both.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It two things can be true at the same time.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That's right, And I missed parts of the game, you know,
I do miss that feeling of coming into a stadium
on game day and getting dressed and getting ready and
going through my ritual to get to get to you know,
the opportunity to be on the field. I miss that.
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I'm but you're right. I miss the cabaradie of the
locker room. I miss the kind of goal setting, goal achieving,
similar minded, different backgrounds, competitiveness, innately competitiveness in this locker room.
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You know, who knows if you throw a ping pong
table in a room of athletes, it's going to turn
into a war of ping pong. So, I mean, we
set up a trash can with a with with with
one of the mesh bagnets, and we made trashketball, we
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shuffl ward table put in competition.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
It's just it was beautiful to see that because.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
There's no mal intent, there was no ego with I mean,
it was a little bit of ego for bragging rights,
but in the moment, you just you steer clear because
you knew that. You know, this competition is gonna happen
whether you liked it or not, and the result mattered
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for those parties involved. But I you know, I just
I remember all of these moments and it just built
the character of our team.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
And that's why, you know, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I can't hang with anybody and anybody can hang with
me because we were just one team.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
There was no segment.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
There was no defensive and offensive side, and then we
all made fun of the specialties. You guys, none of that,
I mean, you know it was it was, Hey, you're
my brother, you're my teammate. I got your back, and
at practice, I'm gonna try and embarrass you. But in
the games, I got your back right right out in public,
I got your back. But in these four walls, you know,
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we can, we can RaSE each other, We could, we
could go at each other because we also know that
we're prepping ourselves. We're prepping for the competition and their
level of the you know, competition. We had to make
sure that ours shines the brightest and we and I
think that's something that made that team special was we
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fought so hard with each other, but the second somebody
else came in the yard, we wanted to whoop them
so bad. And that's that familiar aspect of it having
that kind of play out in real life that if
one gets hurt or anything, everybody is on it is
on their neck, that's on the field, and that's that
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that that was, that was the beauty of really the
secret saf Star teams.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Fun stuff, and that's a fun one team for fans
to remember and great to see the celebration. Great to
see Max down there as part of the celebration. Great
to have him with me in the broadcast booth as well,
along with Missy Matthews. As the Steelers defeat the Colts
twenty seven to twenty to improve to five and three,
maybe change the perception of where the Steelers are currently
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in the grand scheme of the AFC. Much much much
to get to following this twenty seven to twenty victory
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Speaker 3 (17:59):
Snap to Rogers looking for the right four fire root
touchdown Pittsburgh Steelers us straight from Rogers to prior.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Root and the Steelers have taken the lead.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
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Speaker 2 (18:23):
Max.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That was a very rapid two play drive because it
put the Steelers up fourteen to seven. You know, the
Steelers had marched down the field, scored a touchdown, twelve
play fifty six yard drive. And remember the events that
happened in that game. And I was mentioning this at
the top of the show, Max that the game had
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an ominous feel. It's funny how a play here or
play there, Like Sunday night. I keep going back to
this Sunday night against Green Bay. You're up sixteen to
seven at the half. If you take the opening kickoff
of the second half, and remember this, Steelers got the
ball first. If you take a nice, leisurely six minute
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drive and you go up twenty three to seven, that
game might be over right now. Green Bay is one dimensional.
They're not running the football. You don't have to worry
about them running the football. You can unleash your pass rush,
you can do what you want to defensively. It's a
totally different field now, So I thought, I'm like, man,
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they might just blow these guys out on Sunday night.
Then yesterday the Colts. You get the ball first, right,
you know you have the choice, you'd say, we're going
to take the ball. So you take the ball three
and out, you kick it away to them. They march
down the field and score a touchdown like they've done
against everybody else. And now you're reminded, oh boy, this
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is the most explosive offense in football yardage wise and
point wise. This is a Steelers defense that has struggled lately,
giving up thirty or more points in back to back games.
They don't think only done that once. I think in
the Super Bowl era. This is not a good feel.
And then you go three and out again and you
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punt it away and you're.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Still you're feeling badly.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
As the ball leaves correleas weightman's foot, you're thinking, uh, oh,
are they going to march down the field again and
make it fourteen to nothing? And then they get the
ball to begin the second half. You already your mind
starting to ricochet rabbit off into different you know, awful
things that could happen. Then you recover the fumble and
you're like, okay, here we go, man, And then you
don't score on a fourth down play from inside to five,
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and then those ominous thoughts come again. But then eventually
it settles. You go on the long drive and then
you get the turnover, and what a story the turnovers were.
But just emotionally, Max, you know, play here, play there.
It just seems every game, even blowouts, come down to
three or four plays that could turn the tide in
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either direction. They didn't turn the tide for the Stuarts
last Sunday night, and then the Steers defense not only
turned to tide, they turned it again and again. They
they they moved the banks of the river. They didn't
just stem the tide, man, they did some serious irrigation
work in this game.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh, they redirected everything. And and this game was, I mean,
it was.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
It was. It was a roller coaster. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I think about you know what it reminds me of,
and it might be it might be the steel curt
at Kennywood, Like that's that's kind of what the emotions
felt like.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
It was up.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
It was down big drops at the beginning of the game,
but then the highs of the turnovers, and then you
had the offense taking over it.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
But they you had this team seemingly.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Driving on us multiple times, Kinger multiple times, and US
cat territory, and a play happened that first TJ Watt
strip sack bubble recovery. Oh my god, how timely was
that because we were worried, like, man, okay, they're about
to go fourteen oh when and we don't have an answer,
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And in ninety six, hold my gatorade, I'll be back,
and he comes up with a play had not been
able to generate much in the last couple of games,
and we're like, where is he? You know, this defense
and everything else, and man, he just absolutely whipped the
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block and came free. Daniel Jones is thinking, thinking, thinking,
can I get this ball up? And the second he
started to cock his arm back, boom. TJ was there,
stripped it, took it right out of his hands, and
the Steelers we were back in business. Offense was rejuvenated,
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and then we get down there and we don't do
anything with it, and then you're like, whoa, okay, what's
going on here? And then after that another play happens
and then boom, you get a Peyton Wilson. Man that
Peyton Wilson pick. What a play, what a play? He
was everywhere yesterday he sure was, Oh my gosh, and
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so you got all of these feelings. But I will
say this for the defense, double tip of the Cap,
double gold stars on the day, double donuts on this
victory Donut Monday double Donut Award goes to Peyton Wilson.
You get too bud, go glazed and then you know,
you know, get a little crazy, gets some sprinkles, get
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a custard field.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
But that was a two donut performance for him, and
it was just phenomenal to watch because.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I don't know if you guys saw this. There was apparently.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Before the game today in the parking lot or yesterday
before the game yesterday in the parking lot, there was
a fan that pulled out a casket and had and
had and was set and was burning the death of
the Steelers defense. They had a casket, they had everything.
It was black, it was in black and gold. I
had the Steelers defense logo in there, and people were
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coming by and saying prayers for them, and so I
saw this, said meme, and you know, you know, you
know I didn't response.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I had had to go into the comment section.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I had to do this, did you this?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
This is this controlling?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
And I put a photo of yoko Zuna trying to
close the casket on the Undertaker in a wrestling match,
and it shows before the Duke has slammed the castle
that Undertaker has has has come up out of the
casket and has Yokozuna and a choke hold.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I put that on there.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I was like, yes, because this defense came alive, like
the Undertaker and you know in a WrestleMania match, all right,
and they and they and they were and and and
it went crazy. I mean, just think about this King,
you're you know, this squad couldn't find a sack, couldn't
find a turnover. They were getting near guys. They weren't
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to get here guys at that moment, and everybody was
eating let let's Alex Hysmith had a sack.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
T J.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Watt had his sack, Keanu Bitten had a sack. I
mean guys were getting after him. And then the turnovers.
I mean Jack Sawyer gets an interception, Peyton Wilson gets
an interception. I mean, you get the you get the strip.
I mean, it was just we were looking around and
we're trying to figure out, like who would be our
player of the game, right, you know, and and then
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little Peas coming off and having the ultimate you know,
saving play that stopped the momentum at the end of
the game and put the tourniquet on and stop stop
the quote unquote bleeding at the end of the game
of the Colts getting back into it. It was just, man,
it was phenomenal to watch.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
It was. It was one for the ages and for
us as the.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
You know, for my alumni hat watching that a Steeler
legend hat.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
It was. It was. It was a fantastic game to be.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Honored at, right, you know, not only does your team win,
but your team the way they played throughout that game.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Was inspiring and.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Again and again, and it gave me touches of our
old squad, you know, tenacious, aggressive, physically imposing and just
absolutely everything coming in bunches for the good And that
was pretty remarkable to watch.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Complimentary football.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
We could talk about a major play in all three
phases of the game, Kinger and we and we still
wouldn't do a justice. That's how good this team was.
That's how great this team can be. We've seen it
now firsthand. It was. It was a thing of beauty.
It looked like the three game win streak that they
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were on just a few weeks ago. That was the
same tenasty That was the same showing upness that you
wanted to see. And I'm gonna put this out here.
Kicker five looks good at safety, five looks good at
free safety.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He does, he does, he does.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Whoa hey, hey hey. He was everywhere everywhere and that
was that was fun to watch. And then the three
linebacker looked that they kept deploying, not the three outside linebacker. Look,
we've seen that before, and they did do that right.
You had High Smith, TJ. Wadeen and and Nick Herbig
out there, but Malik Harrison, Peyton Wilson, and Patrick Queen
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out on the field at the same time. There was
no question in my mind the intent of the day
was stopping Jonathan Taylor and forcing the ball into Daniel
Jones's hand. Like we talked about in the pregame broadcast.
That was one of my keys. You've got to pick
your poison, and I would pick the ground poison and
force and force Daniel Jones to beat you through the air,
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and early on it looked like, oh my god, that
was a bad decision. Remember I said that up in
the booth, oh my god, it's a bad decision. But
did just give it some time? Give it some time.
Five of those six turnovers directly responsible by Daniel Jones,
two fumbles that ended in recoveries on our end, three interceptions.
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The only one that wasn't his was the muff punt.
That was the only one that wasn't his. The other
five all him. And think about that, six, six of them.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Really we couldn't find half a one.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I made the I made this point thanks to Matt
Williamson on an earlier show and actually in the first
second to this one, Max that the Colts had been
the first team in the Super Bowl era to get
through eight games and have fewer than ten sacks and
fewer than five turnovers. And you got five sacks and
six turnovers. S that's incredible, more turnovers than they'd had
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all season in one game and more than half the
sacks it allowed for the rest of the season in
one game.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, that's that's that's so wild. That's so wild when
you think about that and you know, I'm just I'm
really ecstatic. I'm really proud of them, happy for them,
you know, and like you said on Alumni Day, and
of course you know, to have Joey Porter Senior aka
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Peas James Ferrier aka pot Dog in the huddle breakdown,
that's that's gotta be special. I mean, you're talking about
two captains on that defense. Well, we were rocking and rolling.
So for them, I know, there was an immense amount
of pride. You know, we saw it in the stadium
with with Peasy because they as soon as he got
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the intercession, they went to the camera and they and
they shot Joey jumping up and down screaming for his son.
And that's what it's all about. I mean, think about
the legacy, the history all kind of encapsulated in that
game yesterday and all those feelings and the nostalgia that
it must have brought a lot of Steeler fans yesterday
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seeing our squad on the field, but then seeing the
current squad on that field and you're gett You're you
got the same type of fuzzies, you know, the same
type of warm feeling. I mean, it was just it
was electric. I mean, it was a it was a
it was a one of a kind experience. I mean,
I know we came back for the ten year. That
was cool. But I think being in this position that
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I'm in now and they're still having that part, it's
very it's very humbling, to say the least. I am
blessed beyond measure, and I don't take that for granted.
I thank God every day for you know, the job
that I get to do, the job that you know
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that we get to do. I should say that we
get to do together not only on the radio on
a show like this, but also on game day and
knowing that we're the living historians of Steeler history is
a pretty cool responsibility. It's a pretty cool experience. But
also know that as a part of that Steeler history,
you know, and and the success of a franchise, it's
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just it's it can be overwhelming if you sit there
and really absorb all of it.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
But I I you know, I'm not here to do that.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
But I am here to show my gratitude, to show
my to show my thankfulness for where I'm at and
what I got to experience. I mean, this season has
been phenomenal in my first year and It's only gonna
get better. And that's what's crazy, you know. You know,
we get to do our first international game. I get
to comeback celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Super Bowl forty,
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our first as a unit fit, you know, fifth one
for the Steelers organization. And yeah, I mean, you know,
I'm getting goosebumps just talking about as I'm looking at
and I'm talking about this because it is special. It
is something not to be taken for granted.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Agreed, one hundred percent. Steve has win twenty seven to twenty.
We have so much to talk about. I think we're
going to be talking a lot about this defense over
the next couple of days, and take a glance at
the Chargers, maybe a glance because of a significant potential
injury on the team, a team that has already been
banged up, the importance of this game coming up. Of course,
we got all week to talk about that matchup, and
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we'll dive into it more. But lots to get to
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Speaker 2 (32:59):
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Speaker 3 (33:33):
And thanks very much for being with us as we
continue to look back at a tremendous effort by the
Pittsburgh Steelers, and Max just you have to look at
the Steelers defense and the job that they did. And
by the way, I did mention briefly a potential injury.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
For the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You know, I started last night just taking a sneak
peek ahead to the Chargers. And you know, we all
knew about Rashaun Slay. We found out we were calling
the game yesterday that Joe Joe Joe alt Deleite, one
of the great nicknames of all time, Indiana Jones was
pretty good to you. But but again, as we said yesterday,
he met his temple at doom yesterday in an Acrosser stadium.
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But and we can't agree on that, Max, right, that
that is the worst of the Indiana Jones movies At
least the.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Original three, the lesser, the lesser, the lesser. Yeah, they did.
They did a fourth one. But you can't that. You
can't put that in the same group, right, you can't
put that in.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
No, they did.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
No, they did two of them. Remember more one after that?
I thought they did two more after that. There was
the one after the Crystal Skull thing. It was that
Shilah buff one and then there I thought there was
another one.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I just remember the Shilah buff One.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
See, now I got to do here.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
So no, no, no, no, no, no, you know what.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You let me take care of that, and then I
will be because I'm going to ask you a question
about something, so you know, look, and I just want
to make sure that Hey, guys, there were five movies
Indiana Jones, five Cats, Indiana Jones, and the Dial of
Something or another and the Dial of Destiny.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
There we go. Yeah, I watched.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'd be shocked if I didn't see.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
It came out two years it came out two years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I'd be shocked if I didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
It's possible I didn't see it, you know, because the
first one is one of my all time favorite movies.
Right as the lost art, one of my all time favorites.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Anyway, where were we?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Oh yeah, so uh the injuries to the to the Chargers,
And let me just say this. You know, I know
that Mike Tomlin doesn't do this. Mike Tomlin says, you know,
next man up, that's the job. But for Steelers fans saying, oh,
this guy's hurt, that guy's hurt, this guy's shirt. First
of all, nobody around the rest of the league cares. Secondly,
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that can't be an excuse or a reason even for
you losing a game, even in game. You know, the
ability to adjust to those things is what makes a
good coaching staff and what makes a good locker room, right,
you know, looking around, Okay, next guy, app let's go here.
The expectations, leadership, all those things. So nobody cares. If
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players on the Sea we can tell. I think Deshaun
Ellie's a phenomenal player. I've said this on the air
many times. He's one of my favorite players on the Steelers.
I said that before this year, when I think his
value increased even more because of the Minka Fitzpatrick trade.
You know, I love his game, but he can't be
a reason you lose, right, we just got to find
a way. Others have to get a little incrementally better
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than next guy. App's got to be able to do
his job, so on and so forth. You look at
this Chargers team, man, I mean they are without both
of their starting tackles, potentially Joe Walt for the rest
of the for this game coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
We don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I have not heard an official designation on Joe Walt's injury.
They signed with Shaun Slater, their left tackle, to a
huge deal, and I think was it the next day
he got hurt in camp. I mean it was really
soon after signing that he's out for the year. Joe Alt,
who is Joe All at the league, Joe Joe dealed All.
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Joe Alt, who is a had a sensational rookie season,
is an incredible right tackle. They moved him to left tackle. Well,
he exited yesterday's game. You want to run the football
behind an imposing offensive line. That's what happens to two
superstars out And then you signed Najie Harris. He has
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a freak accident, he gets back in, he's out for
the year. Remember he never missed a game with the Steelers,
and now you have Omary and Hampton, their rookie draft choice,
first round pick for Hampton, first round pick. He's out.
I don't think he'll be back Sunday. At least he's
designated to return. And here they are, and they and
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they're in. They find themselves right in the thick of
the playoff race. So the alt injury would be significant.
It is, you know, hopefully something that Steelers can take
advantage of with the pass rush. You know, Herbert has
been among the leaders or may still be the league
leader in passing yardage. We'll talk more about the Chargers
coming up, but I wanted to mention the injury to
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all and circle back to the fact that the Steelers
had a bunch of injuries. Kyle Dugger comes in, new guy.
He played all but one snap on defense, nine percent
of the snaps. You know, Cole Hulk them out, Chuck
Clark out, Deshaun Elliott out, on and on and on
with players out, and the Steelers defense was able to
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not use that as a crutch or as an excuse
and really just throttle the number one offense in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Listen, another one man's misforce is another man's treasure. And
you know, if you don't have Cole and Chuck out
that are sick, we lose, Like you said, Deshaun Elliott,
potentially for the season. That defense signs Kyle Duggar and
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he's on the field. Four days later, Jalen Ramsey moves
to free safety, elevated role for James Pierre. And you
know you have Malik Harrison that gets activated off of
the I R and he he gets his first you know,
real snaps this season. It was just it was phenomenal
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watch and then we had some guys that got dinged
up endgame that came back. Darius Slay went out, came back,
you know, happy for the resilience of him.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
Hopefully you know whatever happened.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
That you know, he can get treatment this week before
we get ready to fly out West. They they did
look at it as a negative. They looked at each other,
Manda man I told you this. They had to make
a decision who they were going to be and they
had to have that confidence and they also had to
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have that trust in each other. And for the words
that carried you know by Captain Cam this week talking
about not knowing if they'd have the fight or not,
and not knowing. I think they showed you they could fight.
They can fight, and guess what, they can knock you out.
That's what they showed. They can knock you out. And
I don't know how five sacks and six interceptions is
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not a knockout blow to a lot of teams.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
This was.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Phenomenal effort offensively answering the call from a sluggish start,
trying to.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
Change things up.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
But I would argue I'd take that sluggish start if
I knew if it was going to produce the way
that it did afterwards it was. It was great to wash. Now,
I will make my little bit of a critique for
the offense. Possess the ball longer so your defense could rest. Now, granted,
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there was a lot of short fields because of the
interceptions like that Peyton Wilson won.
Speaker 5 (41:16):
I mean, yeah, what fifty maybe fifteen.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yards ago, so that really not really easy to do
that one. But you know, in those longer field opportunities,
I mean you forced a team that doesn't like the punt.
The punters that doesn't even qualify for his punting average
because he's punted so few times at one point.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
I don't think they watched his jersey for a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah, he didn't punch on the third game of the season.
He would be he did, he would have been the
NFL's leader net punting average. And he is the Colt
regular punter. And he's been there every game, you know,
holding on kicks and stuff. He didn't have enough punch
to qualify. That's how that's how infrequently he's punted, and
he's been there all year.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Uh So, yeah, by the way.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
And hold the thought in the offense, because that's one
I want to talk about. But in case you're wondering
about that fifth Indiana Jones movie, and I know everybody
out there is like, yeah, I really want to know
more about that.
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Madge Michelson is the bad guy and by all accounts,
by the way, a really good guy, you know, but
he's always the villain always.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
I wonder what that's like, Hey, y, we need a
bad guy.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
MADD's come on, okay, you know, uh, because every you know,
you it's hard not to like kind of personify these
actors and think, oh he's he must be it. He's
a bad guy, and you know, he's a great guy
in real life. He just always has to play the
bad guy anyway. He's the bad guy in the fifth movie.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
Type cast.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
He's type cast, but you know what, he's probably got
a nice house back there in Denmark. And uh and
all that stuff from being type cast, and question hopefully
kept kept a good sense of humor about it as well.
So this Steelers win and uh yeah we uh justin
by the way, was showed me that casket.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I finally got it a look at it. I had
not seen that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
But as uh as Mark I think was Mark Twain
once said, the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
So yeah, he read his own oh bit in the paper.
He's like, wait a minute, I'm still alive. So the
studs still alive as well. On that defense, forget the cast,
get great performance by the d We're gonna jump into
that and again a little more delving into what the
(43:18):
students offense can do to help the Steelers defense when
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