December 8, 2025 • 44 mins
Max and Rob celebrate with victory donuts and breakdown the Steelers' massive win against the Ravens to claim a solo lead in the North.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Lamar Jackson Rush coming from the backside. He's hitting her,
take it down.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's Heismith with the sack back at the thirty eight
yard line and that will do it. The Steelers come
to M and T Bank Stadium and win twenty seven
to twenty two, and they are back in first place
by themselves in the AFC North.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, that was.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Kind of fun. Thanks you for being with us inside
the locker room alongside Max Starks. Just to Miller our
controls in the iHeart Studio. I'm Rob King and uh
Max a fun one man and always fun when you
beat the Baltimore Ravens, especially that much on the line
and that much at.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Stake and in their place.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Even better, Uh to go and take this show on
the road, and.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know, to to play the way that they played, and.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It was so refreshing to see those moments right when
you needed them to stand up, and they stand up and.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Deliver what we have come to expect of them.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well we've come to see from this squad throughout this
year already, you know, super excited that you know, guys
got to respond in the.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Way that they wanted to.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
And you know, I know we're we'll kind of sparse
through the game, part through the game itself, you know,
because a lot of stuff to talk about in the game.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But man, it was just it was so welcome. I
have to tell you.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
As much as I do not like the Ravens, I
do not like losing to the Ravens even more so.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Guys for not allowing me to have to suffer through
that two times over.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So I appreciate it. It was. It was.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It was awesome, rob it was and lots of different
heroes obviously for this year, there's a lot of things
to stick out, but just you know, I think this
there was a lot of chatter, a lot of talk
in Pittsburgh last week about you know, changes that need
to be made or whatever. This at least takes the
pressure off. I don't know whether a team feels that
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you would be a better gauge that than I obviously Max.
I mean, the do the guys feel that, do they
hear the what's being said? Do they know that people
are are you know, talking badly about the team or
the coaching staff or what have you, or are you
are you able to, as they always say, shut out
those outside noises?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well, I think you know, you could shut out exterior
noise when it happens during the week, But in a stadium,
you you hear that.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
You know, you don't tune out to that degree, right,
And that stuff started in the stadium and you know,
and then permeated its way out into the public media.
I And I mean and Mike Tomlind addressed it, right,
I mean he addressed it in the in the postgame
press conference, uh last Sunday. And I think that's that's where,
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you know, it's a frustrating part, like you think somebody's
gonna come out here and try and lose.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Games or that and the other.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But you know, that was something we had to deal with,
we you know, And and I think you know, when
you have a season like this and you know there's
going to be ups and downs, It's never easy.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It feels easy.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Everybody be doing it right rob you know, everybody would
be the quarterback of a team. Everybody would have, you know,
a million sacks. It would be like the real life
version of Madden if it was possible, but it is
not possible. And when you pour your attention, you pour
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your love, your dollars, and you give your heart freely
to you know, a team.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's something that.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I would say, it's not something taken for granted from
from a player or an organizational standpoint, And nothing that
is done is done from a personal perspective against that allegiance,
that fervor that admiration or adoration right that it's nothing
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is done intentionally against that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And where I think.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Fans can get frustrated or fans can blur those lines
at times is because you are afforded that attention to
a degree. At one point you are engaged and not
necessarily brought behind the curtain, but you're brought up to
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the quote unquote curtain. Right of the two sides of
what this is when the internal side and people you
know think that they see that, but hanging out with
athletes in public away from a field of play and
not on a field, you up in the stands or
sign lines or however, that's a different world.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
That's that's a very vulnerable world as well.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
When you've seen you know, what's behind the curtain or
the veil, and you see the human and not just
the product. I think people get caught up with the
product side of it. They forget that there's a human
element involved here. And so those moments where you can
go and kind of shun people back away from the
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curtain that are that are you know, barreling towards it.
You know, it's a good moment. You know, it's fine
to peek your head in and see what it's like.
But it's not all roses. I mean, you know, for
as much as people want to talk about, oh you
know you need somebody knew it, they're gonna they're gonna
change all of this around. Well, I can tell you
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this change has not always been good everywhere, not just
not not just in football, not just with the Steelers.
But sometimes when you get it wrong, you keep getting
it wrong. And the Steelers having only three head coaches
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since nineteen sixty nine is still one of the most masterful, creative,
coolest things that you could possibly say it's an additional
badge of courage and honor and loyalty that the Steelers wear.
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If you get picked, you have to do right by them.
You have to you have to treat this as the
most important thing and keep them competitive. And it has
been in the hands of three men that entire time
to be stewards of the Steeler's story. And it's just
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it's one of those things that it was. You know,
it's frustrating, and I hear it, I get it, I
understand it. A lot of a lot of my friends
and teammates. I want saying that, But you know, it's
one thing to come from that perspective and be kind
of new to it. It's another thing when you're in
the informed position, and it hurts, its stings a little
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bit more, right, But not saying that it's not supposed
to happen.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You are supposed to demand the.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Best out of these guys, and I don't think we
got the best at all last week against Buffalo, And
be honest, but I tell you what, I saw the
best out of this crew today or yesterday in Baltimore
and flew back with felt like half the stadium. But
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that's exactly what it means. How you get it done.
There's so many different ways of really looking at this
and really giving it an honest opinion, Because, like you
said last week, was there and I don't care what
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you said.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I don't care what rock you crawled under as it got.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
You heard what you heard and you heard what they said.
And if that took a little extra omph, you know,
I'm here for it. I am completely here for it.
I'm ready to receive this blessing. I want to see
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this team succeed, and I thought they took a step
in the right direction of controlling their own destiny yesterday.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
There are so many positives in this game. Obviously the
team win, which you just sort of talked about this
twenty seven twenty two victory in Baltimore, allowing you, as
we were discussing in the postgame portion of the broadcast yesterday,
to control your your own outcome. You you know you there.
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If you take care of your business now, nobody can
catch you, Steels. The Ravens can't catch you. Bengals who
had a tough loss yesterday, they can't catch you. Nobody
can catch you now. Obviously you have to go and
follow that up. But that was the number one thing.
They won the game. That's always the number one thing.
I think, to me, the number two thing. And you know,
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maybe people would quibble and say it's this or that
or the other thing. I thought that Aaron Rodgers looked great.
I thought he looked I think there's times this season
where he's looked great, and there's times this season in
which he hasn't looked great. There's times in which you know,
people have you know, criticized, They criticized him, and you know,
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in the loss against the Chargers, they criticized him last
week against the Bills playing with the broken wrist. And
that's part and parcel at the quarterback position, right. The
old adage is that a quarterback takes too much credit
and victory, too much loss and blame, too much blame
and loss. I'm not sure if I, you know, adhere
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to that strictly, because it is the most important position
in sports. And there's a reason these guys are usually
the highest paid guys in the NFL, and it might
be the highest pid guys in sports.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
They're making a lot of money, and I just thought
Aaron Rodgers, I just thought he looked phenomenal. And if
you believe this team can get to the playoffs and
do some damage, the improvement needs to be first and
foremost to the quarterback position.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know last year people remember the you know, the
Ravens running all over and the Eagles running all over them,
But the toothers also didn't generate a lot offensively in
those games. They didn't give the defense a rest, they
didn't march down and take the lead, They didn't make
anybody one dimensional. They didn't do any of those things.
And that begins with the quarterback position. Max, and I
just thought Aaron Rodgers from the very first throw of
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the game and then the agility ducking under sacks. You
were quick to have the statistic about it, his first
rushing touchdown since November of twenty twenty one. You know,
one of my biggest takeaways of the game yesterday was
I just thought he looked phenomenal again, as we've seen
him look at various times throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, and I mean, and it was it was so
awesome right to see what we kind of expected to see,
and it come to fruition again, but more importantly in
a division game, right in and away division game, and
then in a Baltimore game. And also this is the
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first time that Lamar and Aaron had matched had matched
up head to head in the regular season. That's another
crazy thing because I guess one or the other was
injured when they played each other last, which would have
been four years ago when he was still a Green
Bay Packer. And then of course that of the schedule
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with the Jets a year ago and the year before
that season cut short with injury.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
So I was looking, I was like, dang, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Lamar Jackson, who's been around this league for for for
a minute.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Was it year six for Lamar or five? Year six?
That you know, year six.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
And never played against a lot of these quarterbacks, especially
Aaron Rodgers, so you know, Rogers takes the first duel.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
But that's just that's also what of it is. It's
just wild to think but that these crazy things happen.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, they do. And and Aaron Rodgers again spectacular game.
Did not turn the ball over, So Max, that's a
big item. Nine consecutive games that the students have not
turned the ball over and they've won. They don't even
have to win the turnover bat. I remember earlier this
year against Cleveland, no turnovers for the students, no turnovers
forced against Cleveland. We talk a lot about the turnover culture,
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but part of the turnover culture is not just creating them,
because we're so used to that. With that the great
steel defenses over the years, and the pass rush and
how many strip sacks you get, how many times a
ball is you know, wobbling up in the air because
the quarterbacks being hit as he throws and it turns
into an interception. But part of that, so I think
a lot of fans, myself included, focus on that part
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of the quote unquote turnover culture. There's also the part
in which you don't turn the ball over, you don't
put it in harm's way, you don't take the unnecessary risk.
And the students didn't fumble Aaron Rodgers, didn't throw any interceptions.
They won the turnover battle, won to nothing. They did
not turn the ball over, and in the last nine
games they haven't turned the ball over. They've won. They're
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nine to zero in those games.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
And I think they just goes to show just how
important ball security is.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And even with the one that almost could have.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Been ruled a turnover did not, and the NFL offices
were quick to get a statement out and address that
very issue. So people are wondering, I go, oh, well,
you know, it's just you know, it's not medium rare
and worrying about all that kind of stuff. But uh,
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it's it's looking at how this team responds at adversity.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That's what you tell the true measure of a team, right.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
And those are those are the hallmarks that you look
to in December football specifically, how do they rally, how
do they respond to adversity? And we saw a lot
of that yesterday and Aaron Rodgers being king adversity at
that moment, like literally like with the wrist right and.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
The nose and the age.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
And all of these things that get thrown at him.
The way that he handles it with the grace and
the resiliency and the toughness and he stares, he stares
right back at whatever. He stares right back at it.
Hopefully that transcends throughund the whole entire locker room and
that galvanizes a unit and this month to start making
those plays because they want to play.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Next month exactly. That is the goal that you couldn't
have put it better. You're playing, you want to play
well this month so you can play well next month.
And let's hope that's something they can do and something
we're going to explore throughout the course of the week certainly,
and throughout the course of the month, certainly. Later on
in the week, of course, we'll be getting you ready
for the Monday night game against Dolphins. Got back. This
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came up with a victory against Miami on Monday night
at home alumni weekend, so the students, you know, of course,
the Ravens just that alumni weekend and it was a
disappointing outcome for the Max. They celebrated their thirty three.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Broke.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
They celebrated of their first to two Super Bowl wins.
Let's have a moment's twenty fifth, Oh yeah, twenty fifth,
holding me you're right, twenty fifth. We will issue the
moment of silence and we will take a break as
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Speaker 1 (17:23):
This is in the locker room with King and Starks
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Speaker 2 (17:47):
So back in the locker room with you, and we're
gonna be getting to your phone calls. Do a little
bit four one two nine one nine one three one
six as we do on Mondays. This is a Victory Monday,
Max stills victory donut no day.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Say it which chest Victory Donut Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That's that's that's the drama we needed right there, Max,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
It is you know that.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
But that you know we have we have to be
able to speak as much as we dealt with the
lack of Victory Donut Mondays over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You gotta celebrate the ones when you get them.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
And nothing says victory Donut Monday like the maple bacon
log I'm going to I'm going to get later the
long John, you know, the maple bacon long John that
that I cannot wait to get that later today. That
is going to be the hey to me. You know,
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it's going to be a special moment. What what what
do you think you'll partake in for your victory donut Monday.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Robert Jelly filled every time, jelly filled, cream filled, jelly filled.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I'm not that nice powdery sugary on the outside one.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I do like that, but I also like cinnamon. And
actually I like a cinnamon donut. I like a powdered
donut that I can dunk in my coffee because I
drink my coffee black, and every once in a while
it gives you a little treat for your coffee. Your
coffee's a little treat thing. But generally speaking, you know,
and I like a glazed donut. Glazed, don't to it.
They're all good, but generally speaking, as somebody who tries
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to eat healthy, but am certainly I am certainly capable.
And you know, I'm just say I have a sweet tooth, right,
I do, no doubt I have a sweet tooth, always have.
But I try to pick and choose my battles. So
you got a cake, it's got, it's got butter cream frosting.
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I'm getting a big corner piece, right, I might even
take all four corners, right. I just want the frosting.
If it's whip frosting, I'm just gonna I'm just going
to pass. And I've gotten the way with donuts where
you know, guys will bring donuts in and I'll go
in there, and you know, I see excellent selections. Uh,
you know, chocolate covered with sprinkles or whatever, if it
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if they don't have a jelly filled or a cream filled,
I will pass. And it's not not that I don't
like days, not that I don't like air glazed, not
that I don't like a cinnamon covered or a powdered sugar.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
But I will.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I will as as somebody who's trying to eat help.
I want my I want my Uh. When I give
in the temptation, uh, I.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Want to send the way that you want to.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Say, exactly right, exactly right.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Yes, that's essentially what we're what you know, But I
think I think that's also that's fair, right, because like listen,
if I if I if if I've got to combat
these calories that I'm about to ingest and do something,
at least make it worth it, you know, at least
make it worth it for me and let me and
let let let me do my own damage to my
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own desire. Right, I mean, I think that that's kind
of what you're saying, Rob, Right, you know, at least
if I if I'm going to stray away from my
healthy lifestyle, at least let it be on what I
wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Strayed from as usual. I don't want the consolation.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You put it more eloquently than I Max.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah, well, you know, hey, you know I listen. I
listened to you, Rob. I value what you say. I
take it to heart, and you know, and sometimes I
disseminate and process as well.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Thank you, Michel. That's partners sell it. Hey, Hey, my buddy,
my buddy, my buddy and me A great doll from
the eighties.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
By the way, I think every kid I knew wanted
of my buddy and kid's sister doll back in the day.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Okay, so, so did you get one?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I never got one?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, so uh we were broke, lots of lots of Yeah,
I hear you lots of of big items, lots of
great plays yesterday. I think I'm gonna begin with the end.
I mean, Aaron Rodgers to me was, you know, just tremendous,
but you know, just in no particular order. The high
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Smith sacked to end the game. You know, great play, obviously,
it ends the game. And you know high Smith being
back in there, uh and and providing the kind of
pressure he can provide and the run defense that he
can provide. It's a big ticket item for this defense.
And I just thought he, you know, finishing it off.
Loved to see Alex Highsmith be the guy who got
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that sack.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yeah, and he also had some big plays on the
previous drive and earlier in that drive just coming up
with some monster hits on Derrick Henry and stringing the
ball out and not allowing Keeping Mitchell and them on
a couple of occasions to bounce and get the edge
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on the outside track of run game. I thought they
I thought, here's my star for the entire defense. I
thought they did a better job with handling the perimeter.
Now minus that one jail break of Keaton Mitchell, right,
but I thought they did a good job of recognizing
and swarming to the ball on the perimeters for the
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most part all day. Yes, we did have some some
buster douglases up the middle, you know, a couple of
uppercuts there by Lamar Keaton Mitchell and Derrick Henry. In fact,
Derek Henry's longest run of the day came up the
middle of nineteen yards. But the Edges I thought they
did a lot better job defending the edge first time.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The Ravens had nineteen carries for seventy three yards, that's
a three point eight average, and their longest run was
nine yards. So I thought that, you know, and one
of the things we talked about this last week Max
all the games in which the Studers had had the
lead and got the ball to begin the second half
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and didn't take advantage of that. And you know, even
in the victory over in New England, Mike Persuda was saying,
I haven't checked that back in, but they didn't really
take advantage of that possession to begin the third quarter
and they've lost games because of that. But of all
those games, and yesterday they were to come out, It's
another thing I wanted to talk to about was a
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third quarter. But last week against Buffalo. They were leading
at the half, but there was a who yesh sort
of yeah sort of factor to that game like green Bay.
To me, they were one and green Bay just went
and beat Chicago and they're in first in the NFC North.
They were one good long drive from winning that game.
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I know, you still had a quarter and a half
to play. They go on a seven minute drive and
score a touchdown that I think that game's over. I
think they beat green Bay. I really do. And I
think you know, now you're eight and four instead of
seven and five. Of all those games, of all those games,
that was the one that I thought I felt most
strongly about in the first half way they really played
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a greade half. I felt least strongly about that against Buffalo,
And of course Buffalo came back and won that game.
But Buffalo was just running wild. They just were constantly
it felt like second and four, second and three, second
and two. It didn't feel that way against the Ravens. Yes,
they hit some big runs, but those backbreaking long drives
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built on you know, second and four, okay, first down,
Now second and three, okay, another first down, Just sledgehammer
blow after sledgehammer blow. Yeah, they ran for a lot
of yards of Ravens. But it felt different to me
than it did against Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, it was. It was a lot more segmented.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It wasn't a consistent flow like I felt the Buffalo
game was where they just handed you a steady diet
and said stop it. Go ahead, stop it, and if
you do stop it, then we'll get we'll get well,
we'll get a little bit of a passing game going
because you're gonna be lolled, because you're gonna be continue
to have to dedicate the eighth and ninth guy to
the box to slow to slow things down. And that's
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when the big picture happens. And I thought yesterday that
was the Baltimore Ravens. They're inconsistent. Especially that first half
was just you know, it was tough to watch at times,
and you know, second possession of the game and I
actually have you know this, this like seared into my brain.
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But and in the in the first half of this game,
very first play, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Goes and proves everybody wrong.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
He goes and he goes right at the naysayers with
that bomb to DK right fifty three yards rob And
those were mostly air yards. DK I think fell forward
for about three four of them, So let's give him
forty nine plus air yards on that play. What have
people been talking about with Aeron? Oh you didn't throw
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the ball vertically down the field. Oh, DK's out of
vertical thread. And you know where was this? You know
these picks blah blah blah blah blah. Aaron shut that
up early or actual say locked it down, shut it down,
however you want to do it. Maybe I'll go with
the great American philosopher DMX stop drop, open up shop,
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put him down. Or stop drop, open up shop, put
him down. Yeah, anyways, now I confuse myself with that one.
But yeah, but I think that's that's kind of the
moniker of this team, right, And I think that's where
that's where you get hopeful, But that's also where you.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Get frustrated at times.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Because Aaron looked so good yesterday, and we talked about
turning back the dial and the elusiveness, but we saw
just competent play plays being made around the field, and
we saw a team that was intuned, a team that
was engaged. And I was asked this question by I
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pursued of last night during during the postgame show. You know,
is this something you can manufacture from week to week
with the attention and the tenacity And I said, you
can't do a degree. But it's human nature. Right, there's
somebody you you've played more often. That's why they're called arrival, right,
I mean that's and it's a different it's a different
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mentality because it's been established.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You're going to see that person.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Multiple times and so and the history that's behind these
two franchises when they do beat up also plays in
the back of your mind. And so it's tough to
say that you're going to get up for that, you know,
back when you know and and the Bears are really
good teams. So I'm not picking them because I don't
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think they're a good team. But well, you don't see
a team but every four years, like the Bears. I
can't say about the Packers because we've had the Packers
more recently than four years, right, because of the seventeenth game.
But you don't see Minnesota but every four Like it's
tough to get up for those teams because you don't
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really know those teams, like you know that they are
an NFL team, you know their opponent on the schedule,
you know where they are geographically.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
But that's about it.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Like, you know, a lot of these guys don't have
a book on any teams really in the NFC North
for a majority of the guys on this squad, and
so it's it's one of those things where you can't
take it for granted, but at the same time respect
it for what it is. When they needed to come
up with a play, when they needed to stand and
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be accounted for, they did just that.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
So it was awesome to see that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, you know, there are some yeah butt people out
there right now. To me, there's no yeah butt after
the Ravens game. There just isn't. It's the Ravens. Can't
we enjoy it for forty eight hours or seventy two
hours or whatever? I mean? Come on, man, you went
first place in the AFC North Division, was on the line.
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Amidst the pieces of the sky that were falling around you.
You were able to go out go down there and
win and beat a team that many had, you know,
figured was going to be a legitimate AFC Super Bowl
contender and had one fire I have of their last
six games, and you beat them on their field. You
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came away with a victory. You're in first place. Steelers fans,
you are in first place. Enjoy that. Don't be one
of them. Don't be a ba humbug.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Enjoy it for a few days now. You want a
bah humbug on Thursday and Friday, Sure, bah humbug on
Thursday and Friday. But man, can we enjoy this victory
max for the next forty eight hours?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I usually give myself twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, but it's the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Can we stretch it? Okay? Thirty six thirty six? Let's agree.
Let's agree to be in the middle.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Right up until the Mike Tomlin press conference tomorrow. How
about that?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
There we go. You know what, I'll take it all right, Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
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Speaker 4 (32:49):
Warreners to the.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Writer Rodgers in the shotgun gets a snap back to
pass roaster one in the right flat wide open scooting
down the right sideline pathroom.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
There is nobody there and he's in for the school
jel and warn a short pass out to the plat
and he goes thirty eight yards in for the touchdown.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And thank you for being one of us. In the
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pro shop on Steelers Nation Radio Max. That was crazy,
total busted coverage. He had a little escort down the sideline.
I mean you look down and you see bodies and
you're like, they're all Steelers. Where's the Ravens defense? I
was crazy. There were a couple of plays like that
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in the game, that one and the Aaron Rodgers touchdown,
you know, which I incorrectly called the bootleg because it
just happened so quickly. He went back and he was
looking and there was nobody there, and he just ran
to the left and there was nobody around. Nobody there
for the Ravens on two of the Steelers defensive nobody
there defensively, the Ravens on two of the Steelers' touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Man, it doesn't feel good to have that shoe on
the other foot.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yes, yes it does.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
See how it feels to watch somebody else go through
the inks that we've gone through.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It just felt good.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
It just you know, the universe was universally smiling on
the Steelers in Baltimore. And you know, we've seen it
so much where it's gone the other way almost every
other time, right, but not this time.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
This time Steelers came away with it.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Like you said, you know, somebody not carrying Jalen all
the way outside and then getting trapped kind of in
the wash with the with the verticals that are being
ran as decoy routes to set up that swing script,
to set up that swing pass out to the right,
and then like you said, two dudes running into each other,
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you know, and then just Jalen Warren aff baby, always
falling forward and falling all the way into the end
zone at the end of that play. And you're right,
the big moments where you needed them to be at
their height, they were there. They answered the call. They
knew what was at stake, They knew how it feels
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to be an underdog and something that's proposed to be
your place of strength, and I know what that means.
And for the Steelers to go into Baltimore all the booze,
all the pressure and say not today. And then at
the end of the broadcast, cameras got a Mike T's
face after the right after the game, and he gave
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the chef's kiss sign right indicated that yes, we came out,
we did what we were supposed to, and you know,
winning is something that.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
You know is not always far fetched. For the Steelers,
they haven't.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
They haven't been below five hundred to end the season yet.
And you know, I can only speak from two thousand
and four and beyond, but that that means.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
A whole lot.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
And and like you said, those players, they heard what
was said about their coach because you heard that, you
heard the comments about it. But the Steelers didn't blink.
They made the Ravens blink. And when the Ravens finally
woke up from from just the straight body blows in
the first half, they served a little bit. But our
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defense need it most. I told you what the first
I told you what those first four possessions look like.
End game live for the Ravens to start the second half, touchdown, touchdown,
field goal, field goal, right right, And that that's where
it's like, can they even stop him? Can they even
stop what they're trying?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
What? What? What?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
What the Rams are trying to do or what the
other teams are trying to do?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Or you know, you could only run your race.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
You can't compare yourself against everybody else in this league
because not everybody else has the same exact schedule as you.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Your schedule is.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Unique to your own and you can only play the
people that are on your schedule. You can't make up
people to play. And the Steelers responded in kind to
an adverse situation early often, but they found themselves in
possession of this game, in control for almost the majority
of it.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I think they lost the lead. What once? Uh? In
this game? Rob? Is it? Am? I correct? They lost it?
They lost it once.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I don't remember the Ravens being ahead. I don't think
the Ravens ever led, right, So that's right, because no,
the Ravens led three nothing the Ravens, let's say. I
thought that's right, the only lead, yep, got it?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Okay? Because I was sitting there, I was like, wait
a second, I know they had. I know they had.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
It was an early lead. Hey, Hey, by the way, Max,
I wanted because we're gonna get phone calls in the
second half, and I know we have one in Circus
Georgia online, and we're gonna get to your phone calls,
uh during the break four one, two, nine, six, so
we can load them up for the next hour. But
I wanted to send some different kudos out. First of all,
kudos to Alex Uh, well, we mentioned Alexsman. I'm sorry, Corliss Weightman.
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You know Corliss. Uh, his last two games weren't great games,
and in Chicago it was you know, I'm not gonna
say it's the certainly not the reason they lost the game.
Don't don't get me wrong, but you know, looks you're
looking for little ways, little contributing factors to help you
win a game.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes, he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
He wasn't after what has been you know, solid especially
in the in the you know, combined with the return
game being minimized.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
You know, Corless does it a great job getting hang
time and directional kicking, keeping the returns to a minimum.
The net average very high, not a lot of touchbacks.
He's been a really consistent good kicker, kicking in punter,
kicking in you know, adverse weather conditions. All that, it
wasn't great the last two games. I thought he was
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terrific in this game. Uh, I thought he was. If
we want to say, you know, did you can did
you as you walk off the field, were you part
of the reason the Steelers won? And I'm going to
say Corless Weightman was part of the reason the Steelers
won in this game.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah, field position, field position was key, and he boomed
some of those punts.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
And they were a thing of beauty.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
I mean, the high arc, the tight spiral coming off
of the boot, the butt or the foot of corless Weightman. Uh,
just absolutely amazing, giving his his gunners a time to
get downfield cover properly, and they didn't miss up. They
didn't miss a bunch of tackles either. Carson Brunner and
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Ben Skarnik made.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Sure of that. Yes, Uh, it was. It was. It
was a thing of beauty.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
So you're right, I think great bounce back game, if
you know, if you're looking from that perspective, right, it was.
It was everything you wanted to see. And Corliss Weightman
deserves all the credit that that he's getting because he
he kicked and flipped the field and forced the Ravens
to take it the long length of the field. There
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was no shank epotamus punts or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
He was he was dialed in yesterday.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
He was. And the numbers forty nine point three average,
forty five point eight net and when you needed one,
when you needed a kick at the end of the game,
he needed a punt, you know, a shank. Think about
what a shank does there. Think about what a thirty
six yard net does there. Ravens are taking those last
couple of snaps of this year's fifteen yard line. That's
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a huge difference. Instead he bangs a fifty three yard
or best kick of the day. So I wanted to
doff the cap for corless weightman definitely putting his hand
in the pileo in my opinion for that, and Max's
opinion too, for that victory. The other two guys, I
want to I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I would say, single
him out, but since there's two of I guess I'm
gonna double him out. And once again James Pierre and
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Brandon Eckles, And I do mean once again. I just
you just go back to the beginning of the season.
It was gonna be the three headed monster, Joey Porter Junior,
it was gonna be uh, Jalen Ramsey and Darius Slay.
Well now here we are and Jalen Ramsey's playing safety,
and Darius Slay has been released and the guys who
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stepped up Echos figured to be the fourth cornerback and
he's playing big uh big snap counts and he had
an inter or sack yesterday, his first sack. And then
James Pierre, who was on the practice squad at the
beginning of the season, he was on the practice squad interception.
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He's become a regular force for that defense. I can't
single him out, lumping him together. I'm doubling them out
for praise. I just thought once again just to just
to just so good, so good from Pierre and Eccles yesterday.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
Yeah, timely plays were made, Timely plays were we needed.
We had those gotta have it moments. And then and
they had him, they had him for us.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
I mean the Pierre Moss.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Let me say it again, he Moss the ball, he'd
single hands, snatched it out the sky type of play
and get a little bit of yak afterwards. Right, huge,
huge play, huge play that turned momentum, and we gave
our office to short field and they made they made
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quick order of it.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Right can he gain? Well, just absolutely exploded.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
And that's that's what you needed, you need, you needed
to have that kind of surrey, especially on the road.
And we saw how many people were in that stadium
and it was it was purple, it was it was.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
A Lomni weekend.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
For them, it was celebrating the Super Bowl thirty five
team and you know what that meant, and man, it
was special to see both of those guys. And we
briefly almost lost Brandon Echols, right, he had to go
get evaluated for a concussion, but then eventually showed back
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up on the field and needed every last body, needed
every last body. Yesterday we had guys dropping like flies,
and so to have those type of performances from these
kind of veteran style guys, it was great to see that.
It was it was great for them to have that
moment because they've been putting in a hard work all
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year and to see that paid off in stadium in
a primetime moment and they capitalize on it.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Think of beauty, Think of beauty. It was a thing
of beauty. It was Steelers beat the Ravens. Man, come
on twenty seven two Max. He's in first place in
the Nancy North all by their lonesome.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Oh hold on, let me check, let me check my
polytpocket doebook. Oh that's right. The Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Uh huh, the pittsforgh Steelers. It's a fun thing to
be able to say.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Say it again. Whose first place it is?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
The Pittsburgh Steelers. Ooh, I like it so good stuff. Uh,
Max can't wait to get to our phone callers too, hopefully. Uh.
In a celebratory mood. If you're calling up to be
a Debbie Downer, we take phone calls on Friday. We'll
allow DeBie Downers on Friday. I prefer no Debbie Downers today,
because again, man, you gotta celebrate life.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
You hear life. If you hear that in your head,
just don't call.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
It's not It's not just the Steelers' victory, although of
course that's why we're here. It's life.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Come on, have a good outlook, have a good outlook,
have a positive outlook in life.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
What a wonderful time of the year.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Hey, if you want to call, Hey, if you want
to call it them grump, will I to call it
them grump? Don't worry about it. Four one two nine
one nine one three one six.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Make sure Santa knows you get a piece.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Of that's right. Four one two nine one nine one
three one six. Back with your phone calls. More analysis
of the Steelers victory over the Ravens. When we continue
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Lamar Jackson Rush coming from the backside. He's hitting her,
take it down.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's Heismith with the sack back at the thirty eight
yard line and that will do it. The Steelers come
to M and T Bank Stadium and win twenty seven
to twenty two, and they are back in first place
by themselves in the AFC North.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, that was.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Kind of fun. Thanks you for being with us inside
the locker room alongside Max Starks. Just to Miller our
controls in the iHeart Studio. I'm Rob King and uh
Max a fun one man and always fun when you
beat the Baltimore Ravens, especially that much on the line
and that much at.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Stake and in their place.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Even better, Uh to go and take this show on
the road, and.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know, to to play the way that they played, and.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It was so refreshing to see those moments right when
you needed them to stand up, and they stand up and.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Deliver what we have come to expect of them.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Well we've come to see from this squad throughout this
year already, you know, super excited that you know, guys
got to respond in the.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Way that they wanted to.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
And you know, I know we're we'll kind of sparse
through the game, part through the game itself, you know,
because a lot of stuff to talk about in the game.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
But man, it was just it was so welcome. I
have to tell you.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
As much as I do not like the Ravens, I
do not like losing to the Ravens even more so.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Guys for not allowing me to have to suffer through
that two times over.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
So I appreciate it. It was. It was.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It was awesome, rob it was and lots of different
heroes obviously for this year, there's a lot of things
to stick out, but just you know, I think this
there was a lot of chatter, a lot of talk
in Pittsburgh last week about you know, changes that need
to be made or whatever. This at least takes the
pressure off. I don't know whether a team feels that
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you would be a better gauge that than I obviously Max.
I mean, the do the guys feel that, do they
hear the what's being said? Do they know that people
are are you know, talking badly about the team or
the coaching staff or what have you, or are you
are you able to, as they always say, shut out
those outside noises?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well, I think you know, you could shut out exterior
noise when it happens during the week, But in a stadium,
you you hear that.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
You know, you don't tune out to that degree, right,
And that stuff started in the stadium and you know,
and then permeated its way out into the public media.
I And I mean and Mike Tomlind addressed it, right,
I mean he addressed it in the in the postgame
press conference, uh last Sunday. And I think that's that's where,
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you know, it's a frustrating part, like you think somebody's
gonna come out here and try and lose.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Games or that and the other.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But you know, that was something we had to deal with,
we you know, And and I think you know, when
you have a season like this and you know there's
going to be ups and downs, It's never easy.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It feels easy.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Everybody be doing it right rob you know, everybody would
be the quarterback of a team. Everybody would have, you know,
a million sacks. It would be like the real life
version of Madden if it was possible, but it is
not possible. And when you pour your attention, you pour
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your love, your dollars, and you give your heart freely
to you know, a team.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's something that.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I would say, it's not something taken for granted from
from a player or an organizational standpoint, And nothing that
is done is done from a personal perspective against that allegiance,
that fervor that admiration or adoration right that it's nothing
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is done intentionally against that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And where I think.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Fans can get frustrated or fans can blur those lines
at times is because you are afforded that attention to
a degree. At one point you are engaged and not
necessarily brought behind the curtain, but you're brought up to
(05:41):
the quote unquote curtain. Right of the two sides of
what this is when the internal side and people you
know think that they see that, but hanging out with
athletes in public away from a field of play and
not on a field, you up in the stands or
sign lines or however, that's a different world.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
That's that's a very vulnerable world as well.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
When you've seen you know, what's behind the curtain or
the veil, and you see the human and not just
the product. I think people get caught up with the
product side of it. They forget that there's a human
element involved here. And so those moments where you can
go and kind of shun people back away from the
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curtain that are that are you know, barreling towards it.
You know, it's a good moment. You know, it's fine
to peek your head in and see what it's like.
But it's not all roses. I mean, you know, for
as much as people want to talk about, oh you
know you need somebody knew it, they're gonna they're gonna
change all of this around. Well, I can tell you
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this change has not always been good everywhere, not just
not not just in football, not just with the Steelers.
But sometimes when you get it wrong, you keep getting
it wrong. And the Steelers having only three head coaches
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since nineteen sixty nine is still one of the most masterful, creative,
coolest things that you could possibly say it's an additional
badge of courage and honor and loyalty that the Steelers wear.
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If you get picked, you have to do right by them.
You have to you have to treat this as the
most important thing and keep them competitive. And it has
been in the hands of three men that entire time
to be stewards of the Steeler's story. And it's just
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it's one of those things that it was. You know,
it's frustrating, and I hear it, I get it, I
understand it. A lot of a lot of my friends
and teammates. I want saying that, But you know, it's
one thing to come from that perspective and be kind
of new to it. It's another thing when you're in
the informed position, and it hurts, its stings a little
(08:19):
bit more, right, But not saying that it's not supposed
to happen.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You are supposed to demand the.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Best out of these guys, and I don't think we
got the best at all last week against Buffalo, And
be honest, but I tell you what, I saw the
best out of this crew today or yesterday in Baltimore
and flew back with felt like half the stadium. But
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that's exactly what it means. How you get it done.
There's so many different ways of really looking at this
and really giving it an honest opinion, Because, like you
said last week, was there and I don't care what
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you said.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I don't care what rock you crawled under as it got.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
You heard what you heard and you heard what they said.
And if that took a little extra omph, you know,
I'm here for it. I am completely here for it.
I'm ready to receive this blessing. I want to see
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this team succeed, and I thought they took a step
in the right direction of controlling their own destiny yesterday.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
There are so many positives in this game. Obviously the
team win, which you just sort of talked about this
twenty seven twenty two victory in Baltimore, allowing you, as
we were discussing in the postgame portion of the broadcast yesterday,
to control your your own outcome. You you know you there.
(10:03):
If you take care of your business now, nobody can
catch you, Steels. The Ravens can't catch you. Bengals who
had a tough loss yesterday, they can't catch you. Nobody
can catch you now. Obviously you have to go and
follow that up. But that was the number one thing.
They won the game. That's always the number one thing.
I think, to me, the number two thing. And you know,
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maybe people would quibble and say it's this or that
or the other thing. I thought that Aaron Rodgers looked great.
I thought he looked I think there's times this season
where he's looked great, and there's times this season in
which he hasn't looked great. There's times in which you know,
people have you know, criticized, They criticized him, and you know,
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in the loss against the Chargers, they criticized him last
week against the Bills playing with the broken wrist. And
that's part and parcel at the quarterback position, right. The
old adage is that a quarterback takes too much credit
and victory, too much loss and blame, too much blame
and loss. I'm not sure if I, you know, adhere
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to that strictly, because it is the most important position
in sports. And there's a reason these guys are usually
the highest paid guys in the NFL, and it might
be the highest pid guys in sports.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
They're making a lot of money, and I just thought
Aaron Rodgers, I just thought he looked phenomenal. And if
you believe this team can get to the playoffs and
do some damage, the improvement needs to be first and
foremost to the quarterback position.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You know last year people remember the you know, the
Ravens running all over and the Eagles running all over them,
But the toothers also didn't generate a lot offensively in
those games. They didn't give the defense a rest, they
didn't march down and take the lead, They didn't make
anybody one dimensional. They didn't do any of those things.
And that begins with the quarterback position. Max, and I
just thought Aaron Rodgers from the very first throw of
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the game and then the agility ducking under sacks. You
were quick to have the statistic about it, his first
rushing touchdown since November of twenty twenty one. You know,
one of my biggest takeaways of the game yesterday was
I just thought he looked phenomenal again, as we've seen
him look at various times throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, and I mean, and it was it was so
awesome right to see what we kind of expected to see,
and it come to fruition again, but more importantly in
a division game, right in and away division game, and
then in a Baltimore game. And also this is the
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first time that Lamar and Aaron had matched had matched
up head to head in the regular season. That's another
crazy thing because I guess one or the other was
injured when they played each other last, which would have
been four years ago when he was still a Green
Bay Packer. And then of course that of the schedule
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with the Jets a year ago and the year before
that season cut short with injury.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
So I was looking, I was like, dang, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Lamar Jackson, who's been around this league for for for
a minute.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Was it year six for Lamar or five? Year six?
That you know, year six.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
And never played against a lot of these quarterbacks, especially
Aaron Rodgers, so you know, Rogers takes the first duel.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
But that's just that's also what of it is. It's
just wild to think but that these crazy things happen.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, they do. And and Aaron Rodgers again spectacular game.
Did not turn the ball over, So Max, that's a
big item. Nine consecutive games that the students have not
turned the ball over and they've won. They don't even
have to win the turnover bat. I remember earlier this
year against Cleveland, no turnovers for the students, no turnovers
forced against Cleveland. We talk a lot about the turnover culture,
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but part of the turnover culture is not just creating them,
because we're so used to that. With that the great
steel defenses over the years, and the pass rush and
how many strip sacks you get, how many times a
ball is you know, wobbling up in the air because
the quarterbacks being hit as he throws and it turns
into an interception. But part of that, so I think
a lot of fans, myself included, focus on that part
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of the quote unquote turnover culture. There's also the part
in which you don't turn the ball over, you don't
put it in harm's way, you don't take the unnecessary risk.
And the students didn't fumble Aaron Rodgers, didn't throw any interceptions.
They won the turnover battle, won to nothing. They did
not turn the ball over, and in the last nine
games they haven't turned the ball over. They've won. They're
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nine to zero in those games.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
And I think they just goes to show just how
important ball security is.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And even with the one that almost could have.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Been ruled a turnover did not, and the NFL offices
were quick to get a statement out and address that
very issue. So people are wondering, I go, oh, well,
you know, it's just you know, it's not medium rare
and worrying about all that kind of stuff. But uh,
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it's it's looking at how this team responds at adversity.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
That's what you tell the true measure of a team, right.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
And those are those are the hallmarks that you look
to in December football specifically, how do they rally, how
do they respond to adversity? And we saw a lot
of that yesterday and Aaron Rodgers being king adversity at
that moment, like literally like with the wrist right and.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
The nose and the age.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
And all of these things that get thrown at him.
The way that he handles it with the grace and
the resiliency and the toughness and he stares, he stares
right back at whatever. He stares right back at it.
Hopefully that transcends throughund the whole entire locker room and
that galvanizes a unit and this month to start making
those plays because they want to play.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Next month exactly. That is the goal that you couldn't
have put it better. You're playing, you want to play
well this month so you can play well next month.
And let's hope that's something they can do and something
we're going to explore throughout the course of the week certainly,
and throughout the course of the month, certainly. Later on
in the week, of course, we'll be getting you ready
for the Monday night game against Dolphins. Got back. This
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came up with a victory against Miami on Monday night
at home alumni weekend, so the students, you know, of course,
the Ravens just that alumni weekend and it was a
disappointing outcome for the Max. They celebrated their thirty three.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Broke.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
They celebrated of their first to two Super Bowl wins.
Let's have a moment's twenty fifth, Oh yeah, twenty fifth,
holding me you're right, twenty fifth. We will issue the
moment of silence and we will take a break as
we By the way, we'll be taking your phone calls
later today, so if you want to get him in
go ahead four one two today nine one nine one
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Speaker 2 (17:47):
So back in the locker room with you, and we're
gonna be getting to your phone calls. Do a little
bit four one two nine one nine one three one
six as we do on Mondays. This is a Victory Monday,
Max stills victory donut no day.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Say it which chest Victory Donut Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That's that's that's the drama we needed right there, Max,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
It is you know that.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
But that you know we have we have to be
able to speak as much as we dealt with the
lack of Victory Donut Mondays over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You gotta celebrate the ones when you get them.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
And nothing says victory Donut Monday like the maple bacon
log I'm going to I'm going to get later the
long John, you know, the maple bacon long John that
that I cannot wait to get that later today. That
is going to be the hey to me. You know,
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it's going to be a special moment. What what what
do you think you'll partake in for your victory donut Monday.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Robert Jelly filled every time, jelly filled, cream filled, jelly filled.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I'm not that nice powdery sugary on the outside one.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I do like that, but I also like cinnamon. And
actually I like a cinnamon donut. I like a powdered
donut that I can dunk in my coffee because I
drink my coffee black, and every once in a while
it gives you a little treat for your coffee. Your
coffee's a little treat thing. But generally speaking, you know,
and I like a glazed donut. Glazed, don't to it.
They're all good, but generally speaking, as somebody who tries
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to eat healthy, but am certainly I am certainly capable.
And you know, I'm just say I have a sweet tooth, right,
I do, no doubt I have a sweet tooth, always have.
But I try to pick and choose my battles. So
you got a cake, it's got, it's got butter cream frosting.
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I'm getting a big corner piece, right, I might even
take all four corners, right. I just want the frosting.
If it's whip frosting, I'm just gonna I'm just going
to pass. And I've gotten the way with donuts where
you know, guys will bring donuts in and I'll go
in there, and you know, I see excellent selections. Uh,
you know, chocolate covered with sprinkles or whatever, if it
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if they don't have a jelly filled or a cream filled,
I will pass. And it's not not that I don't
like days, not that I don't like air glazed, not
that I don't like a cinnamon covered or a powdered sugar.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
But I will.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I will as as somebody who's trying to eat help.
I want my I want my Uh. When I give
in the temptation, uh, I.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Want to send the way that you want to.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Say, exactly right, exactly right.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Yes, that's essentially what we're what you know, But I
think I think that's also that's fair, right, because like listen,
if I if I if if I've got to combat
these calories that I'm about to ingest and do something,
at least make it worth it, you know, at least
make it worth it for me and let me and
let let let me do my own damage to my
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own desire. Right, I mean, I think that that's kind
of what you're saying, Rob, Right, you know, at least
if I if I'm going to stray away from my
healthy lifestyle, at least let it be on what I
wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Strayed from as usual. I don't want the consolation.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You put it more eloquently than I Max.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Yeah, well, you know, hey, you know I listen. I
listened to you, Rob. I value what you say. I
take it to heart, and you know, and sometimes I
disseminate and process as well.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Thank you, Michel. That's partners sell it. Hey, Hey, my buddy,
my buddy, my buddy and me A great doll from
the eighties.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
By the way, I think every kid I knew wanted
of my buddy and kid's sister doll back in the day.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Okay, so, so did you get one?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I never got one?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Okay, so uh we were broke, lots of lots of Yeah,
I hear you lots of of big items, lots of
great plays yesterday. I think I'm gonna begin with the end.
I mean, Aaron Rodgers to me was, you know, just tremendous,
but you know, just in no particular order. The high
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Smith sacked to end the game. You know, great play, obviously,
it ends the game. And you know high Smith being
back in there, uh and and providing the kind of
pressure he can provide and the run defense that he
can provide. It's a big ticket item for this defense.
And I just thought he, you know, finishing it off.
Loved to see Alex Highsmith be the guy who got
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that sack.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yeah, and he also had some big plays on the
previous drive and earlier in that drive just coming up
with some monster hits on Derrick Henry and stringing the
ball out and not allowing Keeping Mitchell and them on
a couple of occasions to bounce and get the edge
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on the outside track of run game. I thought they
I thought, here's my star for the entire defense. I
thought they did a better job with handling the perimeter.
Now minus that one jail break of Keaton Mitchell, right,
but I thought they did a good job of recognizing
and swarming to the ball on the perimeters for the
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most part all day. Yes, we did have some some
buster douglases up the middle, you know, a couple of
uppercuts there by Lamar Keaton Mitchell and Derrick Henry. In fact,
Derek Henry's longest run of the day came up the
middle of nineteen yards. But the Edges I thought they
did a lot better job defending the edge first time.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The Ravens had nineteen carries for seventy three yards, that's
a three point eight average, and their longest run was
nine yards. So I thought that, you know, and one
of the things we talked about this last week Max
all the games in which the Studers had had the
lead and got the ball to begin the second half
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and didn't take advantage of that. And you know, even
in the victory over in New England, Mike Persuda was saying,
I haven't checked that back in, but they didn't really
take advantage of that possession to begin the third quarter
and they've lost games because of that. But of all
those games, and yesterday they were to come out, It's
another thing I wanted to talk to about was a
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third quarter. But last week against Buffalo. They were leading
at the half, but there was a who yesh sort
of yeah sort of factor to that game like green Bay.
To me, they were one and green Bay just went
and beat Chicago and they're in first in the NFC North.
They were one good long drive from winning that game.
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I know, you still had a quarter and a half
to play. They go on a seven minute drive and
score a touchdown that I think that game's over. I
think they beat green Bay. I really do. And I
think you know, now you're eight and four instead of
seven and five. Of all those games, of all those games,
that was the one that I thought I felt most
strongly about in the first half way they really played
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a greade half. I felt least strongly about that against Buffalo,
And of course Buffalo came back and won that game.
But Buffalo was just running wild. They just were constantly
it felt like second and four, second and three, second
and two. It didn't feel that way against the Ravens. Yes,
they hit some big runs, but those backbreaking long drives
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built on you know, second and four, okay, first down,
Now second and three, okay, another first down, Just sledgehammer
blow after sledgehammer blow. Yeah, they ran for a lot
of yards of Ravens. But it felt different to me
than it did against Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, it was. It was a lot more segmented.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It wasn't a consistent flow like I felt the Buffalo
game was where they just handed you a steady diet
and said stop it. Go ahead, stop it, and if
you do stop it, then we'll get we'll get well,
we'll get a little bit of a passing game going
because you're gonna be lolled, because you're gonna be continue
to have to dedicate the eighth and ninth guy to
the box to slow to slow things down. And that's
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when the big picture happens. And I thought yesterday that
was the Baltimore Ravens. They're inconsistent. Especially that first half
was just you know, it was tough to watch at times,
and you know, second possession of the game and I
actually have you know this, this like seared into my brain.
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But and in the in the first half of this game,
very first play, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Goes and proves everybody wrong.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
He goes and he goes right at the naysayers with
that bomb to DK right fifty three yards rob And
those were mostly air yards. DK I think fell forward
for about three four of them, So let's give him
forty nine plus air yards on that play. What have
people been talking about with Aeron? Oh you didn't throw
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the ball vertically down the field. Oh, DK's out of
vertical thread. And you know where was this? You know
these picks blah blah blah blah blah. Aaron shut that
up early or actual say locked it down, shut it down,
however you want to do it. Maybe I'll go with
the great American philosopher DMX stop drop, open up shop,
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put him down. Or stop drop, open up shop, put
him down. Yeah, anyways, now I confuse myself with that one.
But yeah, but I think that's that's kind of the
moniker of this team, right, And I think that's where
that's where you get hopeful, But that's also where you.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Get frustrated at times.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Because Aaron looked so good yesterday, and we talked about
turning back the dial and the elusiveness, but we saw
just competent play plays being made around the field, and
we saw a team that was intuned, a team that
was engaged. And I was asked this question by I
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pursued of last night during during the postgame show. You know,
is this something you can manufacture from week to week
with the attention and the tenacity And I said, you
can't do a degree. But it's human nature. Right, there's
somebody you you've played more often. That's why they're called arrival, right,
I mean that's and it's a different it's a different
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mentality because it's been established.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You're going to see that person.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Multiple times and so and the history that's behind these
two franchises when they do beat up also plays in
the back of your mind. And so it's tough to
say that you're going to get up for that, you know,
back when you know and and the Bears are really
good teams. So I'm not picking them because I don't
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think they're a good team. But well, you don't see
a team but every four years, like the Bears. I
can't say about the Packers because we've had the Packers
more recently than four years, right, because of the seventeenth game.
But you don't see Minnesota but every four Like it's
tough to get up for those teams because you don't
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really know those teams, like you know that they are
an NFL team, you know their opponent on the schedule,
you know where they are geographically.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
But that's about it.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Like, you know, a lot of these guys don't have
a book on any teams really in the NFC North
for a majority of the guys on this squad, and
so it's it's one of those things where you can't
take it for granted, but at the same time respect
it for what it is. When they needed to come
up with a play, when they needed to stand and
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be accounted for, they did just that.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
So it was awesome to see that.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, you know, there are some yeah butt people out
there right now. To me, there's no yeah butt after
the Ravens game. There just isn't. It's the Ravens. Can't
we enjoy it for forty eight hours or seventy two
hours or whatever? I mean? Come on, man, you went
first place in the AFC North Division, was on the line.
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Amidst the pieces of the sky that were falling around you.
You were able to go out go down there and
win and beat a team that many had, you know,
figured was going to be a legitimate AFC Super Bowl
contender and had one fire I have of their last
six games, and you beat them on their field. You
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came away with a victory. You're in first place. Steelers fans,
you are in first place. Enjoy that. Don't be one
of them. Don't be a ba humbug.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Enjoy it for a few days now. You want a
bah humbug on Thursday and Friday, Sure, bah humbug on
Thursday and Friday. But man, can we enjoy this victory
max for the next forty eight hours?
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I usually give myself twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, but it's the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Can we stretch it? Okay? Thirty six thirty six? Let's agree.
Let's agree to be in the middle.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Right up until the Mike Tomlin press conference tomorrow. How
about that?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
There we go. You know what, I'll take it all right, Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
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Speaker 4 (32:49):
Warreners to the.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Writer Rodgers in the shotgun gets a snap back to
pass roaster one in the right flat wide open scooting
down the right sideline pathroom.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
There is nobody there and he's in for the school
jel and warn a short pass out to the plat
and he goes thirty eight yards in for the touchdown.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And thank you for being one of us. In the
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pro shop on Steelers Nation Radio Max. That was crazy,
total busted coverage. He had a little escort down the sideline.
I mean you look down and you see bodies and
you're like, they're all Steelers. Where's the Ravens defense? I
was crazy. There were a couple of plays like that
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in the game, that one and the Aaron Rodgers touchdown,
you know, which I incorrectly called the bootleg because it
just happened so quickly. He went back and he was
looking and there was nobody there, and he just ran
to the left and there was nobody around. Nobody there
for the Ravens on two of the Steelers defensive nobody
there defensively, the Ravens on two of the Steelers' touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Man, it doesn't feel good to have that shoe on
the other foot.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yes, yes it does.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
See how it feels to watch somebody else go through
the inks that we've gone through.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It just felt good.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
It just you know, the universe was universally smiling on
the Steelers in Baltimore. And you know, we've seen it
so much where it's gone the other way almost every
other time, right, but not this time.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
This time Steelers came away with it.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Like you said, you know, somebody not carrying Jalen all
the way outside and then getting trapped kind of in
the wash with the with the verticals that are being
ran as decoy routes to set up that swing script,
to set up that swing pass out to the right,
and then like you said, two dudes running into each other,
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you know, and then just Jalen Warren aff baby, always
falling forward and falling all the way into the end
zone at the end of that play. And you're right,
the big moments where you needed them to be at
their height, they were there. They answered the call. They
knew what was at stake, They knew how it feels
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to be an underdog and something that's proposed to be
your place of strength, and I know what that means.
And for the Steelers to go into Baltimore all the booze,
all the pressure and say not today. And then at
the end of the broadcast, cameras got a Mike T's
face after the right after the game, and he gave
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the chef's kiss sign right indicated that yes, we came out,
we did what we were supposed to, and you know,
winning is something that.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
You know is not always far fetched. For the Steelers,
they haven't.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
They haven't been below five hundred to end the season yet.
And you know, I can only speak from two thousand
and four and beyond, but that that means.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
A whole lot.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
And and like you said, those players, they heard what
was said about their coach because you heard that, you
heard the comments about it. But the Steelers didn't blink.
They made the Ravens blink. And when the Ravens finally
woke up from from just the straight body blows in
the first half, they served a little bit. But our
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defense need it most. I told you what the first
I told you what those first four possessions look like.
End game live for the Ravens to start the second half, touchdown, touchdown,
field goal, field goal, right right, And that that's where
it's like, can they even stop him? Can they even
stop what they're trying?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
What? What? What?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
What the Rams are trying to do or what the
other teams are trying to do?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Or you know, you could only run your race.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
You can't compare yourself against everybody else in this league
because not everybody else has the same exact schedule as you.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Your schedule is.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Unique to your own and you can only play the
people that are on your schedule. You can't make up
people to play. And the Steelers responded in kind to
an adverse situation early often, but they found themselves in
possession of this game, in control for almost the majority
of it.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I think they lost the lead. What once? Uh? In
this game? Rob? Is it? Am? I correct? They lost it?
They lost it once.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I don't remember the Ravens being ahead. I don't think
the Ravens ever led, right, So that's right, because no,
the Ravens led three nothing the Ravens, let's say. I
thought that's right, the only lead, yep, got it?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Okay? Because I was sitting there, I was like, wait
a second, I know they had. I know they had.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
It was an early lead. Hey, Hey, by the way, Max,
I wanted because we're gonna get phone calls in the
second half, and I know we have one in Circus
Georgia online, and we're gonna get to your phone calls,
uh during the break four one, two, nine, six, so
we can load them up for the next hour. But
I wanted to send some different kudos out. First of all,
kudos to Alex Uh, well, we mentioned Alexsman. I'm sorry, Corliss Weightman.
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You know Corliss. Uh, his last two games weren't great games,
and in Chicago it was you know, I'm not gonna
say it's the certainly not the reason they lost the game.
Don't don't get me wrong, but you know, looks you're
looking for little ways, little contributing factors to help you
win a game.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes, he wasn't.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
He wasn't after what has been you know, solid especially
in the in the you know, combined with the return
game being minimized.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
You know, Corless does it a great job getting hang
time and directional kicking, keeping the returns to a minimum.
The net average very high, not a lot of touchbacks.
He's been a really consistent good kicker, kicking in punter,
kicking in you know, adverse weather conditions. All that, it
wasn't great the last two games. I thought he was
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terrific in this game. Uh, I thought he was. If
we want to say, you know, did you can did
you as you walk off the field, were you part
of the reason the Steelers won? And I'm going to
say Corless Weightman was part of the reason the Steelers
won in this game.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah, field position, field position was key, and he boomed
some of those punts.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
And they were a thing of beauty.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
I mean, the high arc, the tight spiral coming off
of the boot, the butt or the foot of corless Weightman. Uh,
just absolutely amazing, giving his his gunners a time to
get downfield cover properly, and they didn't miss up. They
didn't miss a bunch of tackles either. Carson Brunner and
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Ben Skarnik made.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Sure of that. Yes, Uh, it was. It was. It
was a thing of beauty.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
So you're right, I think great bounce back game, if
you know, if you're looking from that perspective, right, it was.
It was everything you wanted to see. And Corliss Weightman
deserves all the credit that that he's getting because he
he kicked and flipped the field and forced the Ravens
to take it the long length of the field. There
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was no shank epotamus punts or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
He was he was dialed in yesterday.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
He was. And the numbers forty nine point three average,
forty five point eight net and when you needed one,
when you needed a kick at the end of the game,
he needed a punt, you know, a shank. Think about
what a shank does there. Think about what a thirty
six yard net does there. Ravens are taking those last
couple of snaps of this year's fifteen yard line. That's
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a huge difference. Instead he bangs a fifty three yard
or best kick of the day. So I wanted to
doff the cap for corless weightman definitely putting his hand
in the pileo in my opinion for that, and Max's
opinion too, for that victory. The other two guys, I
want to I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I would say, single
him out, but since there's two of I guess I'm
gonna double him out. And once again James Pierre and
(40:56):
Brandon Eckles, And I do mean once again. I just
you just go back to the beginning of the season.
It was gonna be the three headed monster, Joey Porter Junior,
it was gonna be uh, Jalen Ramsey and Darius Slay.
Well now here we are and Jalen Ramsey's playing safety,
and Darius Slay has been released and the guys who
(41:17):
stepped up Echos figured to be the fourth cornerback and
he's playing big uh big snap counts and he had
an inter or sack yesterday, his first sack. And then
James Pierre, who was on the practice squad at the
beginning of the season, he was on the practice squad interception.
(41:37):
He's become a regular force for that defense. I can't
single him out, lumping him together. I'm doubling them out
for praise. I just thought once again just to just
to just so good, so good from Pierre and Eccles yesterday.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
Yeah, timely plays were made, Timely plays were we needed.
We had those gotta have it moments. And then and
they had him, they had him for us.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
I mean the Pierre Moss.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Let me say it again, he Moss the ball, he'd
single hands, snatched it out the sky type of play
and get a little bit of yak afterwards. Right, huge,
huge play, huge play that turned momentum, and we gave
our office to short field and they made they made
(42:26):
quick order of it.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Right can he gain? Well, just absolutely exploded.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
And that's that's what you needed, you need, you needed
to have that kind of surrey, especially on the road.
And we saw how many people were in that stadium
and it was it was purple, it was it was.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
A Lomni weekend.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
For them, it was celebrating the Super Bowl thirty five
team and you know what that meant, and man, it
was special to see both of those guys. And we
briefly almost lost Brandon Echols, right, he had to go
get evaluated for a concussion, but then eventually showed back
(43:08):
up on the field and needed every last body, needed
every last body. Yesterday we had guys dropping like flies,
and so to have those type of performances from these
kind of veteran style guys, it was great to see that.
It was it was great for them to have that
moment because they've been putting in a hard work all
(43:30):
year and to see that paid off in stadium in
a primetime moment and they capitalize on it.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Think of beauty, Think of beauty. It was a thing
of beauty. It was Steelers beat the Ravens. Man, come
on twenty seven two Max. He's in first place in
the Nancy North all by their lonesome.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Oh hold on, let me check, let me check my
polytpocket doebook. Oh that's right. The Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Uh huh, the pittsforgh Steelers. It's a fun thing to
be able to say.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Say it again. Whose first place it is?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
The Pittsburgh Steelers. Ooh, I like it so good stuff. Uh,
Max can't wait to get to our phone callers too, hopefully. Uh.
In a celebratory mood. If you're calling up to be
a Debbie Downer, we take phone calls on Friday. We'll
allow DeBie Downers on Friday. I prefer no Debbie Downers today,
because again, man, you gotta celebrate life.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
You hear life. If you hear that in your head,
just don't call.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
It's not It's not just the Steelers' victory, although of
course that's why we're here. It's life.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Come on, have a good outlook, have a good outlook,
have a positive outlook in life.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
What a wonderful time of the year.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Hey, if you want to call, Hey, if you want
to call it them grump, will I to call it
them grump? Don't worry about it. Four one two nine
one nine one three one six.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Make sure Santa knows you get a piece.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Of that's right. Four one two nine one nine one
three one six. Back with your phone calls. More analysis
of the Steelers victory over the Ravens. When we continue
in the locker Room, presented by Your Neighborhood ford' Stoin
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of the Steelers Audio Network.
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