February 5, 2025 • 42 mins
Rob King joins the locker room to talk all things Super Bowl Sunday
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Slasher.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
All right inside the locker room. We are back here
on a Wednesday, and.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Boil, Boil boy, we are. We are delighted to have
a man, a myth legend, to join us today. Of course,
I'm talking about none other than our good friend Voice
of the Steelers, Rob the King, King, Oh, King in
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the Castle, King in the Castle, have a chill.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I have a chill. Oh go go, King in the Castle.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Oh my goodness, never get old man, never get made
me laugh all year, two straight years. It's made me
laugh every time you play it, every time.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
How you doing, my friend, I'm doing good. Rob can't complain.
I'm just down here in New Orleans nowlans Uh covering
super Bowl. So it's been, it's been. It's been a
fun trip so far.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I don't know if the last super Bowl there was
in one. I was at that Super Bowl covering it,
uh for them, the Fox sports Net regionals. Uh Patriots Rams,
great super Bowl, great game, beginning of a certain era,
I'm not mistaken. I think that was two thousand and one,
and I think it was right after it was right
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after nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And so.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
For the first time ever, there were metal detectors for
the media and all these lines and all these strange
things that you'd never done before. You you just walk up
to show them your credential and go on your way.
And it was the first time that things had really
changed for covering a big event like that.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
But the big easy, always fun, max, always a good
time down there.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, no, it is.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It is a lot of fun. And actually there was
one afterwards. There was that that was the San Francisco
Baltimore when the Hardball Bowl I believe was here in
New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, right, So I want to I want to.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Say that that's when the power went out during that game,
didn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That was the famous Deebo meme that's right of him,
of him shutting the power off.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So don't ask me how how that like sticks in
my head like that, But.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Uh, Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I was telling West this is is actually the most
consistent site for a super Bowl. It has the record
eleven straight super Bowl well eleven straight over its time
have been in the Superdome, uh for the Super for
super Bowls, so they've hosted it the most times in
that venue.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah, that is impressive because I believe the Steelers won
their first Super Bowl if I'm not mistaken in New Orleans.
I know Nate Hogan and the Steelers did a phenomenal
job looking back at that first super Bowl championship, but
it was played at a stadium that's no longer there,
and I think on the Twu Lane campus.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was two Lane Stadium super Bowl nine, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
But that that super Bowl that that stadium is no
longer there, correct, they I think Twu Lane's built.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
He did built the new stadium.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I don't know where they played another they played the
Superdome or or where they played their games. But yeah,
history for the Steelers being the that that had to
have been. Okay, now, you know you would take the
first super Bowl down there, But maybe I shouldn't say
that because I'm not really positive, but certainly great Steelers
ties in New Orleans for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
No, absolutely, I mean, yeah, two Lane since.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I think they have they have a stadium on campus,
I believe.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Okay, yeah, the site of that Super Bowl it was
just about to be torn down, and as I recall that,
they were hoping the Superdome was going to be ready,
I believe it wasn't, so they had it at the
Two Lane Stadium. I'm getting a little hazy on my
details now, I should probably stop, because I think that's
I think that's the story. And they wound up playing
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in that stadium, which was like condemned and torn down
shortly after the Steelers were their first Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
It was two Lane Stadium was was knocked down in
nineteen eighty. It hosted the Sugar Bowl in nineteen seventy four.
It hosted three of the first nine Super Bowls nineteen
seventy seventy two against seventy five.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Why was that wrong on that one? Okay, so the
last seventy five? So that was okay, good, So there
we are, all right. So we got our two, We
got our history. Thank you Wes, Thank you Wes for
I got a C minus on that on that report card.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Hey see, thank you Sees. Get degrees, king Er, don't
you forget it there it is. I want to Max.
We gotta get, we gotta get Kinger's thoughts on on
all these big trade market moving and.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Shaking across the league here, Yeah, we do, we do Kinger. Uh,
Miles Garrett, you know, obviously on Monday release the relief
that he wanted to be traded in dramatic fashion, right
as the week and everybody for Super Bowls waking up,
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you know, early in the day, says that you know,
he didn't go to Cleveland to go he didn't go
from Cleveland to Canon. He wanted he wanted to win
Super Bowl championships. He does not think he can that
he can get that done with the Cleveland Brownies. So
I asked you, sir, thoughts and potential teams as you
(06:22):
answered it however you want.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Yeah, first of all, I agree with him. I don't
think they can get it done.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I mean, I just think they're a mess, you know,
and uh, a couple of years ago, they looked like
they built a really good roster, really deep roster. I think,
you know, the predictions that the Deshaun watch and trade
could really backfire. I mean, you know, they were they
pushed all their chips in on Deshaun Watching. That's what
they did, and and it hasn't It's proven to be
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a disaster, and they don't have enough room to keep
their players in enough cap room.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, he's he's right.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I don't think he can win there, and so he
wants to go, as great players do, somewhere that he
has a chance to win a title. And I think
any team would be you know, would be happy to
have Miles Garrett. You make that work, you know. Now,
as far as pursuing him and what you'd have to
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give up to get him, that's another that's another story altogether.
I've heard, you know, a first round in the mid round.
I've heard two first round picks, you know, reading the
stories that that's what the prognosticators seem to think that
he would he would bring in And as far as
where he would go, I don't know, that's impossible for
me to predict. But again, there are very few teams,
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and I think the Steelers are among those teams in
which it would be Yes, he's a great player, but uh,
you know, it's that's not that's the Steers are one
of the few teams that wouldn't need a guy like that,
you know, I mean that he you.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Know, there's probably twenty teams in.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
The league in which he would step in and instantly be,
you know, the guy that they need to maybe put
that defense.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Over the top.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
So I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of teams
interested in a guy like Miles Garrett. I don't blame
him for wanting out of Cleveland because he's a great player,
and that just.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I think he's right. It doesn't it looks like a
difficult place to win right now.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Kinger another kind of not kind of another substantial talent
across the NFL. Former Super Bowl MVP Cooper Cup. I guess,
kind of same charge, different pew as Miles Garrett. Whereas
Miles Garrett's requesting the trade, Cooper Cup has been informed
that the Rams are seeking to trade him, and there's
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you know, I think a lot that plays into it.
He will be thirty two before training camp breaks. He
has played in twelve regular season games in each of
the past two seasons, so not completely decimated with injury,
but he has missed ten games over the last two
years as well too. Kind of on that other side
of thirty now I guess this one has some more
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potential Black and Gold ties, just because we know the
Steelers have been looking to acquire another wide receiver, who
have been in conversations in that market, you know for
a year now, dating back to Brandon Ayuk and uh
and DeVante Adams and ended up acquiring Mike Williams. It's
it's an area where they've been active and have been
paying attention. One any interest on Cooper Cup and your part?
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And two similar to kind of Miles Garrett, what do
you think the market looks like for a guy that
is very accomplished and and and was productive down the stretch,
but also isn't you know, obviously the same that he
was a few years ago.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh well, to me, there's I mean, yes, I think
that he would look good at Black and Gold.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Frankly, now again, what is the price? You know?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I cannot believe again, I I you know, trying to
forecast what a guy's worse. I mean, it only takes
one team to drive to the short price value up
as far as the Rams are concerned, I mean, I
can't imagine. I don't know what the prognostications are saying.
Guys on Cooper Cup and what his value would be.
Have you heard Has there been any rumors that hey,
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he's uh he's a mid round pick or a higher
round pick.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know about down there, but I haven't heard
anything yet.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah I have. What's that Max.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I was saying?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
The fluctuations have been all over the place, Uh, you know,
but it's been mostly low. I think it was, you know,
even like compensatories, you know that they were talking about
and obviously still waiting for the compensatory picks to come
out for the draft.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I think this.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Was kind of that early preemptive and people are still
trying to figure out what is his value, what is
his health? Because you know that Super Bowl MVP season
and run that he had, he is further away from
that than he is closer to another one of those.
So I would imagine you're looking at low end of
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the draft compensation in them, and the compensatory category.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Personally, you know that.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Sixth seven and that's it. Oh, got to rework the contract.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Exactly as exactly the next thing I was gonna say.
So those are the two things that would have to
happen for him to make sense for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I mean, uh, you know, as a football player, I
love to have them because I think there's a lot
of things that he would do. You know, I don't
know whether you're gonna go with Russell Wilson or you're
gonna go Justin Fields, but he's the kind of guy
I think that could be considered really quarterbacks friendly as
a receiver that might help a young quarterback like a
Justin Thiels out. So I think that's a bonus. He's
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got some pedigree of success. Obviously, if you think he
still has something in the tank, your scouts have to
tell you that. But this is a guy that if
he does have something in the tank, and your scouts
do tell you that he does, he's an excellent blocker
that would fit very well into what Arthur Smith does.
So I think that there's a lot of things that
would be attractive about him. He could he could also help,
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I think, bridge the gap. So you know, let's say, uh,
for example, you do trade for him, you get things
worked out, you get a price you feel good about,
you don't blow your budget on him. Now you go
into the draft perhaps looking for, you know, a receiver
that is, you know, maybe you take a receiver high
who you don't.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Have to rush in. He can kind of acclimate himself
a little bit on the NFL level.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
And then you know, if George, if you decide to
move on from George Pickens, now cup, is that that
security blanket that guy you take, you know, slots in
maybe you're getting more out of Roman Wilson, you'd still
left Calvin Austin. I think that that, you know that
suddenly that receiving corps could have a completely different look
if you're to add a guy like that, and he
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could also help you bridge the gap between what you
have now and what you're gonna have a couple of
years in.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
So there's a number of reasons I'd like him.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
But again, you know, does he do your scout say, hey,
this guy still got something in the tank and can
you get I think the compensation piece, not what he
would cost, but what he would cost monetarily his contract.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
He'd have to get that straightened out as well.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No, absolutely, I think I think I think that's gonna
be probably one of the biggest things that's gonna be
is that contract is probably the biggest hindrance. I think
he will have a market, not gonna be a high
demand market.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I mean, but you know.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
The intent for the Rams to sell, sell, sell, you know,
is that that that's one of those things where you
look at you're like, okay, all right, so there's something there.
And the way that he communicate with the family was
just kind of a kind of a different.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Ordeal.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
You know, as we kind of get ready for this
super Bowl that's happening on Sunday, obviously I'm down here
Kinger and you know, it can't help but enjoy the
food culture of the people. The NFL Experience is going
to open today later today, so that'll be, uh, that'll
be funny interesting to go and see and see what's gonna.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Be on there.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
But before we get there, you know, these teams have practices,
These teams have, you know, their own storyline.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Is there anything.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
That you're gonna be thinking about or intrigued about, you
know as you kind of watch this game come Sunday,
because I know for me, like obviously can't say Kuan
do it, It's gonna be one of those things that
I'm going to think about, right, But is there anything
that you're going to be thinking about, Like specifically, like man,
I wonder what if or if Kansas City, because we
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see both these things.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
If Kansas City is to win, it would be this.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I think.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I'm I'm intrigued like you are. Can the Can the
Eagles run the ball on the Chiefs? That is to
me the number one, the number one component of this game.
I think if the Eagles can successfully run the ball
on the Chiefs, They're gonna win the game.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I think if the Chiefs can hold them.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
In check, Patrick Mahomes and that offense will find a
way to win. I don't you know, who knows whether
it's going to be high scoring or low scoring. But
I just think that, you know, Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Has that magic, he has that.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Way to beat you.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
But if the if the Eagles can run the ball
and keep the ball out of Mahomes hands and you know,
be able to play that kind of bullyball, I think
that I think that the Eagles can.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Win the game. So that's to me, that is the
number one component. Can the Eagles run the ball? And
I think everything else kind of shoots off of that
as far as how I think the game is gonna go.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Hmm okay.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
A hard time.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I mean It's not that the Eagles can't beat you
throwing the ball, but I think because look, we saw
them coming out throwing the ball against the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Nobody expected that. But I just think that you know,
if if one team's running game is limited, and.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
That team is you know that that team can be
the Chiefs, I think, and the Chiefs can still find
a way to win. I think it's difficult to be
the Eagles and still find a way to win if
you can't.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Run the ball.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Yeah, I think you're You're spot on there, Kinger, And
I'm obviously very excited to see what this Eagles defense
looks like. You know, can Carter and Davis do enough
disruption up front to to kind of let them use
the other pieces of that defense?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Can you know?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
I mean, Philadelphia has two rookies in that secondary right
in Mitchell and Dejene. How does Andy Reid and Patrick
Mahomes go about attacking them in a big moment at
the end of the season when they're more physically drained
and beaten up at this point than they've ever been
in their football careers before. Some really intriguing storylines in
this one, you know, not even getting into the overarching
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rematch from two years ago, and the three p peat
possibility for Kansas City and all these different things. So yeah,
I know, I know we got to let you go here, Kinger,
but looking looking forward to this one on Sunday, I
think it had listen some Every super Bowl is great
because it's the Super Bowl, like, it's going to be big,
it's going to be legendary, it's going to affect legacies.
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But this one feels like it could really be remembered,
could really be talked about for a long time.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I'm expecting a great game.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I'm gonna go home and study on New Orleans super
Bowl history, but this this feels like it could be
another great chat.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
They're in New Orleans super Bowl history.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
To make.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Absolutely well, Kinger, it has been a pleasure as always
all season. Thank you so much for all that you've
done for our show. Of course, you know our time
also on game days. I know Wolf would echo the
same sentiments on air if you were here. Right now,
he's a little bit under the weather, but we truly
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appreciate your man. Enjoy the downtime, enjoy the free time,
and of course can't wait to talk to you and
see you down, you know, in the next few months
or so, as we get to embark upon creating the
next twenty twenty five twenty twenty six Stealers team and
documenting their journey. Take care of my friend, Appreciate it
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and we'll start us you.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh yeah, no, I just gonna say thank you and it.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
This will come as no surprise to anybody who listens
to this show, but you guys, you wolf absolute joy
to work with.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Thank you for everything all You're really appreciated.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You the man King Heart.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah he hey, and the King of the Castle will
always be there. We'll have that sounder for you next
year as always. King all right, all right, that was
the great rob King voice of the Steelers. We'll be
back with Bore inside the locker room after these commercial breaks.
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Speaker 8 (20:16):
Twenty two seconds and winding third quarter, first down, Parker
gets the call again. He's throw a hole.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Up the sider.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Turnyny, Honny pay.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Tom Parker just come run of forty one yards Willie
Parkner for the first time this year, goes over one
hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Now, Max, I gotta be honest, I totally just messed
that up.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, it's all good. You have the other one.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
You, You and I are You and I are both
still half asleep this morning. I uh yeah, I hit
the wrong I hit no.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
See this is the wrong one too. Where did it go?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
I was trying to play Willie Parker's super Bowl record
setting run in Super Bowl forty, which happened nineteen years
ago today, of course that Max was a part of.
But for some reason right now, the soundboard is not
giving me the rights on Jeez, Louise, Max, I ruined it.
I completely ruined the surprise for you. I'm sorry, but
happy nineteenth anniversary to your first super Bowl title.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You know it. Thank you, Bud, thank you. I'm gonna
blow out the proverbial, Okay, I go, I go, Max.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I got a surprise coming back for you here from
break and I play a run against New Orleans in
two thousand and six, Like what what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Good lord?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I mean technically I remember being down here and I
do remember that play, but uh, I always remember that
was like that was Halloween night and it and we
had there were some very rowdy Cajuns in the building
that night, and we could not overcome Drew Brees and company.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Uh that were down here for the Saints. So yes,
I did. And Marcus Colston who was Willie Colown's he
was the receiver for that team. Uh, I believe.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Trying to think who was the I think Duce McCallister
was still their running back as well. Okay, so yeah, yeah,
Leroy Glover was a was a d tackle for Yeah,
vaguely remember that, but thank you know.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Will Smith was the d N of Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, not getting jiggy with it, Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, not getting jiggy with it.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Bobby McCrae, one of my teammates, was also a defensive
end for the Saints.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So, I mean, still a good one. It's appro at
least you were city appropriate.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
I was city appropriate at least. But that's so funny.
I'm going through the system here and I cannot wait here.
We go better late than never.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Hines Ward settles, right, and they handed to Willie Parker
finds a laying he's on his way.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Look out quot Race forty five Quellie Parker forty thirty
twenty ten five Willy.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Touchdown, Willy Parker seventy.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Five yards and this place there's a stealer maniacs paper.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Gott Max. How good is how good is Billy?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
My god.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Man?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's still that still is so exciting. And here here's
the thing.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Also, the record for the longest Super Bowl run or
touchdown rush from scrimmage is Willie Parker, and nineteen years later,
still the record. A little nervous about the record when
you got a guy like say Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
At point, I didn't think about that.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Could very easily see him busting like a seventy six
or a seventy seven yard or unfortunately, couldn't.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You hell, first play of the game he hit sixty wards.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Ain't nothing, you know, So you have to worry about
backed up football in the hand of the ball to
Saquon Max.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
We might need to wear out, we might need to
wear out that Willie Parker highlight this week.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Just just just in case, the record no longer stands Come.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Monday, exact.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Now, the good thing is kickoff now, you know, good point,
you know, put you puts you at the thirty you know,
just about you know, so technically he wouldn't have enough
yardage unless they took like some type of negative play and.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Because I mean, they'd have to be at the twenty
four yard line right.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Right, so they would i mean try to return it
and they get tackled at the twenty one or the
twenty two or something. But you're right, the majority of
the time now the offenses are starting with the football
and betterfield position.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, yeah, so so I mean they technically effectively cut
those distances out. Now it would take like you know,
a punt backed up situation, maybe a turnover red zone
from the other team.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Like it's less likely, but never say never when you
have you have Saquon.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, I'm a little worried about that now that you mentioned,
and I hadn't thought about that, but yeah, I mean
he is he's been the home run hitter of all
home run hitters, you know, like we haven't seen in
a long time at that position, old man.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, all right, come on, come on, Kansas City, at
least do us this favor.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Come on, yeah, exactly, keep the ball between the twenty fives.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Okay, wont we.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Gotta we gotta play this one more time. It was
too good to only hear once.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Yeah, heinz Ward settles right.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Man.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
They handed to Willie Parker, finds a laying, he's on
his way.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Look out quick right. Forty five Willie Perker forty thirty
twenty ten five. Willie touchdown Willy Parker seventy five yards.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
And there's place there's a steeler lady as paper.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I love the man.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
I love that, Like five six seconds into that when
Billy realizes what's about to happen, and just the jump
in at the very beginning again you can see it
when he sees it.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Man, they handed to Willie Parker, finds a laying, he's
on his way.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Look out foot race.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
Forty five Willy Parker forty thirty twenty ten five. Willie
touchdown Willie Parker seventy five yards and this place there's
a steeler ladyac's.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Paper, lookout foot race.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I mean he's yeah, what he says, foot rate, it
is it but but it was just but think about this,
how fast Willy was running that Billy could only mark
the ten yard increment. He couldn't even do how most
people would do it in five yard increment because he
is fast Willie Parker, Like you know you heard at
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forty thirty twenty in mine he got one and not down,
you know what I'm saying, Like, just think about how
fast you have to be running that the play by
play guy can't even give you five yard increments.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Like it's like listening to Usain Bolt run one hundred
meters dash my goodness.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
It's like, all right, and they're out the gates that
you say Bolts did the lead at it's over, He's
won gold medal.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, there goes a record.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, it's just waiting all day for this moment and
it lasted under ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Unbelievable, but worth it right and still gives you chills
and goosebumps every time. I Mean, those are like I'm i'm,
i am. I'm not even preaching to the choir here, Max,
I'm like preaching to the pope obviously as you were
on the field for that. Like, those are the moments
that you play the game for, that you watch the
games for that that we love these sports for for
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moments like that.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, I would say I'm more like a cardinal because
there's a lot of them. Uh, the Pope, Yeah, I
feel like he's like the head coach.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Did you did play for the Arizona Cardinals as well, too? Right,
so it works.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I did, I did? I did? You know?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
And definitely not not not the not the Italian not
the Italian Cardinals, you know, but that was I mean, you.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Know that that moment for you was probably what ten
twelve fifteen seconds something like that, But those ten twelve
fifteen seconds, I mean, they'll be burned into your memory forever.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Oh it well, And you know, I like to think
that once I fealed the block, like when he said
foot race, that was that was my block.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I believe that in my head foot right stark block,
you know what I'm saying. I think of it like that,
like like because he's because I mean, that was really
the last guy.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I blocked, the last guy that was loafit totufu right,
because Michael bowl Wher had over compensated for Hines going
in motion and everything over rotated to the left side of.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
The of the offense and there was nobody.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
It was like it was like, man, okay, you know,
Allen's gonna come around and seal the place side backer.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He Heath has a man block on the end.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
You know, Kendall and I have have have a double
team down to the backside backer. But because they overshifted,
you know, Lofa was a little bit further back, so
I had more I had a little bit more time
to hang on the d tackle and make sure that
we make sure we got him on the ground. And
then boom. It was like scrape, scrape up to Lofa.
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Because Lofo was so inside, I was able to get
completely like side right now and and so boom and
after that there was nobody there. Nobody there, and Willie.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
You are basically like when Willy passes you, you are
basically turned around, fully engaged with Lofa to Tupou and
getting a piece of the of the defensive tackle as
well too.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
So I mean at that point he is gone, there's
he's only at his own thirty two thirty three yard line,
but he's gone, see you good luck?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah exactly. It was like it was like, sorry, nobody's
catching this guy.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Like if you're not in front of him, you are
you are watching the tailpipes, you know what I'm saying,
Like it's it was and it was fast too, and
my dumb behind I thought, man, I I can run
down there. I want to be the first one to
celebrate with him. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Get a little tired here. And also he can go
to the sideline after he celebrates. I gotta I gotta
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still block the it's still a block for the extra point.
So you see like speed up for like ten fifty
yards and throttle it down like now I need to say.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yeah, it is when they when they show like the
you know, like the end zone view on the replay,
it is funny because you can see you sprint for
about ten fifteen yards and then you're like, all, let's
it's only the it's only the second play of the
second half. Here, we got a lot of game left.
Let's let's down.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I was.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I was like, wait a second, we don't have that
big of a lead.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Hold on, hold on, you know, I still got I
still got twenty left to play.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Exactly I want to play. I want to pull for
the oxygen just yet, but I might have to.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
But if I ran all the way down there, so
so yeah, but no that I mean, that.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Play is just yeah, it's it's etched into my into
my brain for all all eternity.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So that was a heck of a moment.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
That was that was a special moment, and I think
that was the moment when people were like, oh, yeah,
they're probably gonna win this. I mean, that's definitely you
know what what crossed my mind in that moment, like Wow,
to do that after you know, after slugging it out
in the first half, and to have that type of
success really that fast into the second half. I'm like, oh, man,
(31:45):
oh yeah, we're cooking. We're cooking with gasoline right now.
Not even Greece, we're cooking with gasoline.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
No, yeah, absolutely, And at that time too, Max, as
you know, this is I mean, this is right in
the era of you know, when I was old enough
to care and pay attention and start you know, living
and dying.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
With all these games as you know, like I'm in
my teenage years, and yeah, you're right.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Like with that team you guys had, you go up
fourteen to three, it was like our defense has an
eleven point cushion.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Good luck.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
This game's over, you know what I mean, Like, they're
not gonna now to beat us, They're gonna have to
score more than fourteen points. They ain't scoring more than
fourteen points on this defense. Like you're right, there was
still twenty nine minutes, twenty eight minutes and change left
in the game. Twenty yeah, twenty nine minutes and change
left in the game. But I mean it it felt like,
all right, we just take care of business here and
(32:34):
this is done. Like we got an eleven point lead,
that is that is plenty. Our defense is gonna put
the put the lid on this thing, and we're gonna
get that one for the thumb.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
And also think about this, I mean that they have
Sean Alexander, who's the rushing camp that year, on the
other side.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
So it was it like, oh man, you know we.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Got the rushing advantage. We don't sure the rushing advantage
was on Seattle side. I mean, you know, And and
Matt Hasselbeck had been good that year, so I'm like,
and they're here.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
They were.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
They were more of a favorite than we were going
into the going into the season and the playoffs to
be a team to be reckon with.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
So we knew they were.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Capable across here, had a good offensive line as well.
Walter Jones was on that squad, you know, Hall of Famer,
and then Homegrom was the head coach, right, Mike Holmgrim was.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The head coach.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Yeah, super Bowl champion with the Green Bay Packers head coach.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
And then the guard that went in, he went in
the year before Allen and he switched over to the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I can't remember his name right now. He was a guard,
but yeah, yeah, he was a guard.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I can't think because he was the one that got
the transition tag and they put the poison pill in
the contract because it was a wording the Vikings used. Yeah,
why can't I think of his name? And it's it's
that kills me. It's like I have all these that
(34:07):
I forget, Steve. I think, there we go, Hutch. That's right, Hutch.
Hutch was what was was? It was, you know, the
the left guard over there. So to have a hall
two Hall of famers playing next to each other on
that on that line, you know, yeah, there there was
not warm and fuzzies after, you know, like, oh man,
we got this.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
But like you said, the way our defense have been
playing all year.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
You know, there was some huge, huge opportunities because they
knew that they were gonna have to press. They're gonna
have to now throw the football after that touchdown to
try and get back into this.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
So there's gonna be some vulnerabilities.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And of course it played out towards the end of
the game, but you know, yeah, there was a lot
of there was a lot of like.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Okay, yes, we got a cushion.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Gotta be able to stop them, got to be able
to figure out, you know, the answer for them, because
you have to remember later in that drive, Ben throws
throws the pick and he has returned but like almost
like seventy yards or so, m h I think, and
they score like three plays later.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's actually what I did take oxygen. As I was trying.
I was running, like.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Running, completely scared at that moment, you know, to try
and get the guy down. Twan comes across the field
and he makes the play in front of me, and
then I fly, I jump over him to avoid getting
clipped and ended up hitting the guys that were quote
unquote escorting him back down the field. And then then
(35:40):
I had to run across the width of the field,
which is over half a field's length in and of itself,
and I promptly set my button down and grabbed the
oxygen tank and dared somebody to say.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Something, just looking around like somebody say something.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Do it? Please do? Please do?
Speaker 8 (35:59):
I hope you.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Don't think I'm you know, half sounded like Darth Vader.
Half sounded like an angry bear.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, exactly, I was. I was doubled over too.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
When I got to the side, I was like, man,
because you go on a long drive, and then the
pick was thrown and he's down my sideline.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
So now I'm trying to make it.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I've tried to bake up like like speed, and I'm
trying to run as fast as I can, and then
I don't make the plane. I go airborne, right, and
then I got to pick myself up off the turf
on the opposite sideline and then jug across the guitar
with the field, you know, because you definitely don't want
to get a twelve minute on the field penalty, and
especially since I don't play on the side of the ball,
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that would have been embarrassing. So it was like the
pride got me across the field. Then reality immediately set
in as I got to the bench area.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
I feel like that is you know that probably part
of the blessing in the curse of being one of
the big hogs out there.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
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Speaker 10 (37:53):
You know what the pen in Craig rod And it's
always a time when I playing this game to win
a championship. I'm a champion, and I think the bus
is the last time.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Is here Detrol, Oh my gosh, Man Wesley pulling out
all the chill moments.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You know, I'm trying to get you in your fields
on this on this Wednesday, Max, I mean you are.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
You're doing a great job there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Now, Jerome, you know, winning the ultimate prize at home
and then like you said that speech, that moment to
be able to deliver as a team for him, man
just just absolutely special. A phenomenal human being, a phenomenal
(38:52):
football player, a phenomenal personality. I mean, I can't tell
you how many different and things, but the humility, the toughness,
and the kindness as well. He was a fierce competitor man,
(39:12):
but he he was somebody on Sundays like, hey, you
know you getting the thick of it? Yeah, yeah, send
me three six, you know what I'm saying, Like, I'll
take that any day of the week. I like those odds,
and so, you know, for Jerome and what he meant
to us and that year, man, it just makes that
(39:35):
victory so much sweeter, just because you were able to
deliver for a teammate and give him his fairy his
fairy tale ending.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right. I mean every player dreams of that moment, like
when like like when.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
The ultimate game walk off the field, right, you know,
the deuce is signed in the air as they see
your BA.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Like that's what every player dreams and strives for.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Unfortunately, that doesn't happen that often, you know, less than
five percent of guys.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Oh yeah say that.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I mean, like, I know what happened. I know it
happened for Elway. I'm trying to think who else.
Speaker 7 (40:18):
I know There's been more, but off the top of
my head, like Elway is the only one other one
that I can think of.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah, no, I mean Elway probably because I mean because
even for Tom in Tampa Bay, like he was like that,
he came back again to try and make.
Speaker 9 (40:34):
It happen one more time. So you know that didn't happen.
It was you know at that point, you know what.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Was it San Francisco, I believe went the following year yep,
and then that's and then that's what he called it.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
Careering. Peyton Manning did it as well too, didn't he
with the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah, Peyton, you know Peyton did it? Yeah, super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Actually it must be it must be a Broncos quarterback sink.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
He's like, I'm sure always said, hey, Peyton, you might
want to do this now because we're bringing you. Exactly,
you have found the deepest end of the deep end
of this pool. And you jumped in this entire season
because remember it was looking bad. It was because it
was it was him and brock Osweiler going back and
(41:18):
forth like as a starter.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
It sure was.
Speaker 7 (41:20):
He he was not great that year, but you know what,
he made enough plays down the down the stretch for
them to get it done with that defense.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yep, yep he did.
Speaker 9 (41:30):
And of course you know the MVP went to Von
Miller of that Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
And because that defense was lights out. That was lights out.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
You know, Cam Newton didn't know which way was up sadly.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Oh, I got another one for you, Michael Strahan.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Oh, yes, straight did do that.
Speaker 7 (41:51):
Walked away after that, right, yeah, walked away after beating
the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
Okay, gee, guys, all right, one more, one more and
then I know we got a breaker. We're not gonna
like this one as much. But Ray Lewis did it
as well too. Speaking of that last New Orleans, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Was wondering and I didn't want to say it because
I'm like, I think he did, but I was like, I.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Don't want to. I don't want to bring it up.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
If it's true, we'll strike that from the record.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Never never happened, you know what.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
We're gonna strike this segment from the records right now,
from the from the records right now, because we're gonna
go to break. And on the other side, of course,
we have the great One back on his normal day
and time, the one, the only Jim Wex will wake
up back here inside the locker room, you're listening on
the Steelers Audio Network.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
All right inside the locker room. We are back here
on a Wednesday, and.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Boil, Boil boy, we are. We are delighted to have
a man, a myth legend, to join us today. Of course,
I'm talking about none other than our good friend Voice
of the Steelers, Rob the King, King, Oh, King in
(01:08):
the Castle, King in the Castle, have a chill.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I have a chill. Oh go go, King in the Castle.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Oh my goodness, never get old man, never get made
me laugh all year, two straight years. It's made me
laugh every time you play it, every time.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
How you doing, my friend, I'm doing good. Rob can't complain.
I'm just down here in New Orleans nowlans Uh covering
super Bowl. So it's been, it's been. It's been a
fun trip so far.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I don't know if the last super Bowl there was
in one. I was at that Super Bowl covering it,
uh for them, the Fox sports Net regionals. Uh Patriots Rams,
great super Bowl, great game, beginning of a certain era,
I'm not mistaken. I think that was two thousand and one,
and I think it was right after it was right
(02:07):
after nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And so.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
For the first time ever, there were metal detectors for
the media and all these lines and all these strange
things that you'd never done before. You you just walk up
to show them your credential and go on your way.
And it was the first time that things had really
changed for covering a big event like that.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
But the big easy, always fun, max, always a good
time down there.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, no, it is.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It is a lot of fun. And actually there was
one afterwards. There was that that was the San Francisco
Baltimore when the Hardball Bowl I believe was here in
New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, right, So I want to I want to.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Say that that's when the power went out during that game,
didn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That was the famous Deebo meme that's right of him,
of him shutting the power off.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So don't ask me how how that like sticks in
my head like that, But.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Uh, Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I was telling West this is is actually the most
consistent site for a super Bowl. It has the record
eleven straight super Bowl well eleven straight over its time
have been in the Superdome, uh for the Super for
super Bowls, so they've hosted it the most times in
that venue.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Yeah, that is impressive because I believe the Steelers won
their first Super Bowl if I'm not mistaken in New Orleans.
I know Nate Hogan and the Steelers did a phenomenal
job looking back at that first super Bowl championship, but
it was played at a stadium that's no longer there,
and I think on the Twu Lane campus.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was two Lane Stadium super Bowl nine, Yes.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
But that that super Bowl that that stadium is no
longer there, correct, they I think Twu Lane's built.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
He did built the new stadium.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I don't know where they played another they played the
Superdome or or where they played their games. But yeah,
history for the Steelers being the that that had to
have been. Okay, now, you know you would take the
first super Bowl down there, But maybe I shouldn't say
that because I'm not really positive, but certainly great Steelers
ties in New Orleans for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
No, absolutely, I mean, yeah, two Lane since.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I think they have they have a stadium on campus,
I believe.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Okay, yeah, the site of that Super Bowl it was
just about to be torn down, and as I recall that,
they were hoping the Superdome was going to be ready,
I believe it wasn't, so they had it at the
Two Lane Stadium. I'm getting a little hazy on my
details now, I should probably stop, because I think that's
I think that's the story. And they wound up playing
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in that stadium, which was like condemned and torn down
shortly after the Steelers were their first Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
It was two Lane Stadium was was knocked down in
nineteen eighty. It hosted the Sugar Bowl in nineteen seventy four.
It hosted three of the first nine Super Bowls nineteen
seventy seventy two against seventy five.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Why was that wrong on that one? Okay, so the
last seventy five? So that was okay, good, So there
we are, all right. So we got our two, We
got our history. Thank you Wes, Thank you Wes for
I got a C minus on that on that report card.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Hey see, thank you Sees. Get degrees, king Er, don't
you forget it there it is. I want to Max.
We gotta get, we gotta get Kinger's thoughts on on
all these big trade market moving and.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Shaking across the league here, Yeah, we do, we do Kinger. Uh,
Miles Garrett, you know, obviously on Monday release the relief
that he wanted to be traded in dramatic fashion, right
as the week and everybody for Super Bowls waking up,
(06:01):
you know, early in the day, says that you know,
he didn't go to Cleveland to go he didn't go
from Cleveland to Canon. He wanted he wanted to win
Super Bowl championships. He does not think he can that
he can get that done with the Cleveland Brownies. So
I asked you, sir, thoughts and potential teams as you
(06:22):
answered it however you want.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Yeah, first of all, I agree with him. I don't
think they can get it done.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I mean, I just think they're a mess, you know,
and uh, a couple of years ago, they looked like
they built a really good roster, really deep roster. I think,
you know, the predictions that the Deshaun watch and trade
could really backfire. I mean, you know, they were they
pushed all their chips in on Deshaun Watching. That's what
they did, and and it hasn't It's proven to be
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a disaster, and they don't have enough room to keep
their players in enough cap room.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, he's he's right.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I don't think he can win there, and so he
wants to go, as great players do, somewhere that he
has a chance to win a title. And I think
any team would be you know, would be happy to
have Miles Garrett. You make that work, you know. Now,
as far as pursuing him and what you'd have to
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give up to get him, that's another that's another story altogether.
I've heard, you know, a first round in the mid round.
I've heard two first round picks, you know, reading the
stories that that's what the prognosticators seem to think that
he would he would bring in And as far as
where he would go, I don't know, that's impossible for
me to predict. But again, there are very few teams,
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and I think the Steelers are among those teams in
which it would be Yes, he's a great player, but uh,
you know, it's that's not that's the Steers are one
of the few teams that wouldn't need a guy like that,
you know, I mean that he you.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Know, there's probably twenty teams in.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
The league in which he would step in and instantly be,
you know, the guy that they need to maybe put
that defense.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Over the top.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
So I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of teams
interested in a guy like Miles Garrett. I don't blame
him for wanting out of Cleveland because he's a great player,
and that just.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I think he's right. It doesn't it looks like a
difficult place to win right now.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Kinger another kind of not kind of another substantial talent
across the NFL. Former Super Bowl MVP Cooper Cup. I guess,
kind of same charge, different pew as Miles Garrett. Whereas
Miles Garrett's requesting the trade, Cooper Cup has been informed
that the Rams are seeking to trade him, and there's
(08:43):
you know, I think a lot that plays into it.
He will be thirty two before training camp breaks. He
has played in twelve regular season games in each of
the past two seasons, so not completely decimated with injury,
but he has missed ten games over the last two
years as well too. Kind of on that other side
of thirty now I guess this one has some more
(09:05):
potential Black and Gold ties, just because we know the
Steelers have been looking to acquire another wide receiver, who
have been in conversations in that market, you know for
a year now, dating back to Brandon Ayuk and uh
and DeVante Adams and ended up acquiring Mike Williams. It's
it's an area where they've been active and have been
paying attention. One any interest on Cooper Cup and your part?
(09:30):
And two similar to kind of Miles Garrett, what do
you think the market looks like for a guy that
is very accomplished and and and was productive down the stretch,
but also isn't you know, obviously the same that he
was a few years ago.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Oh well, to me, there's I mean, yes, I think
that he would look good at Black and Gold.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Frankly, now again, what is the price? You know?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I cannot believe again, I I you know, trying to
forecast what a guy's worse. I mean, it only takes
one team to drive to the short price value up
as far as the Rams are concerned, I mean, I
can't imagine. I don't know what the prognostications are saying.
Guys on Cooper Cup and what his value would be.
Have you heard Has there been any rumors that hey,
(10:14):
he's uh he's a mid round pick or a higher
round pick.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know about down there, but I haven't heard
anything yet.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah I have. What's that Max.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I was saying?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
The fluctuations have been all over the place, Uh, you know,
but it's been mostly low. I think it was, you know,
even like compensatories, you know that they were talking about
and obviously still waiting for the compensatory picks to come
out for the draft.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I think this.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Was kind of that early preemptive and people are still
trying to figure out what is his value, what is
his health? Because you know that Super Bowl MVP season
and run that he had, he is further away from
that than he is closer to another one of those.
So I would imagine you're looking at low end of
(11:09):
the draft compensation in them, and the compensatory category.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Personally, you know that.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Sixth seven and that's it. Oh, got to rework the contract.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Exactly as exactly the next thing I was gonna say.
So those are the two things that would have to
happen for him to make sense for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I mean, uh, you know, as a football player, I
love to have them because I think there's a lot
of things that he would do. You know, I don't
know whether you're gonna go with Russell Wilson or you're
gonna go Justin Fields, but he's the kind of guy
I think that could be considered really quarterbacks friendly as
a receiver that might help a young quarterback like a
Justin Thiels out. So I think that's a bonus. He's
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got some pedigree of success. Obviously, if you think he
still has something in the tank, your scouts have to
tell you that. But this is a guy that if
he does have something in the tank, and your scouts
do tell you that he does, he's an excellent blocker
that would fit very well into what Arthur Smith does.
So I think that there's a lot of things that
would be attractive about him. He could he could also help,
(12:16):
I think, bridge the gap. So you know, let's say, uh,
for example, you do trade for him, you get things
worked out, you get a price you feel good about,
you don't blow your budget on him. Now you go
into the draft perhaps looking for, you know, a receiver
that is, you know, maybe you take a receiver high
who you don't.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Have to rush in. He can kind of acclimate himself
a little bit on the NFL level.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
And then you know, if George, if you decide to
move on from George Pickens, now cup, is that that
security blanket that guy you take, you know, slots in
maybe you're getting more out of Roman Wilson, you'd still
left Calvin Austin. I think that that, you know that
suddenly that receiving corps could have a completely different look
if you're to add a guy like that, and he
(13:02):
could also help you bridge the gap between what you
have now and what you're gonna have a couple of
years in.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
So there's a number of reasons I'd like him.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
But again, you know, does he do your scout say, hey,
this guy still got something in the tank and can
you get I think the compensation piece, not what he
would cost, but what he would cost monetarily his contract.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
He'd have to get that straightened out as well.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
No, absolutely, I think I think I think that's gonna
be probably one of the biggest things that's gonna be
is that contract is probably the biggest hindrance. I think
he will have a market, not gonna be a high
demand market.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I mean, but you know.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
The intent for the Rams to sell, sell, sell, you know,
is that that that's one of those things where you
look at you're like, okay, all right, so there's something there.
And the way that he communicate with the family was
just kind of a kind of a different.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Ordeal.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
You know, as we kind of get ready for this
super Bowl that's happening on Sunday, obviously I'm down here
Kinger and you know, it can't help but enjoy the
food culture of the people. The NFL Experience is going
to open today later today, so that'll be, uh, that'll
be funny interesting to go and see and see what's gonna.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Be on there.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
But before we get there, you know, these teams have practices,
These teams have, you know, their own storyline.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Is there anything.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
That you're gonna be thinking about or intrigued about, you
know as you kind of watch this game come Sunday,
because I know for me, like obviously can't say Kuan
do it, It's gonna be one of those things that
I'm going to think about, right, But is there anything
that you're going to be thinking about, Like specifically, like man,
I wonder what if or if Kansas City, because we
(15:01):
see both these things.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
If Kansas City is to win, it would be this.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
I think.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I'm I'm intrigued like you are. Can the Can the
Eagles run the ball on the Chiefs? That is to
me the number one, the number one component of this game.
I think if the Eagles can successfully run the ball
on the Chiefs, They're gonna win the game.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
I think if the Chiefs can hold them.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
In check, Patrick Mahomes and that offense will find a
way to win. I don't you know, who knows whether
it's going to be high scoring or low scoring. But
I just think that, you know, Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Has that magic, he has that.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Way to beat you.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
But if the if the Eagles can run the ball
and keep the ball out of Mahomes hands and you know,
be able to play that kind of bullyball, I think
that I think that the Eagles can.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Win the game. So that's to me, that is the
number one component. Can the Eagles run the ball? And
I think everything else kind of shoots off of that
as far as how I think the game is gonna go.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Hmm okay.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
A hard time.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I mean It's not that the Eagles can't beat you
throwing the ball, but I think because look, we saw
them coming out throwing the ball against the Steelers.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Nobody expected that. But I just think that you know,
if if one team's running game is limited, and.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
That team is you know that that team can be
the Chiefs, I think, and the Chiefs can still find
a way to win. I think it's difficult to be
the Eagles and still find a way to win if
you can't.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Run the ball.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Yeah, I think you're You're spot on there, Kinger, And
I'm obviously very excited to see what this Eagles defense
looks like. You know, can Carter and Davis do enough
disruption up front to to kind of let them use
the other pieces of that defense?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Can you know?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
I mean, Philadelphia has two rookies in that secondary right
in Mitchell and Dejene. How does Andy Reid and Patrick
Mahomes go about attacking them in a big moment at
the end of the season when they're more physically drained
and beaten up at this point than they've ever been
in their football careers before. Some really intriguing storylines in
this one, you know, not even getting into the overarching
(17:23):
rematch from two years ago, and the three p peat
possibility for Kansas City and all these different things. So yeah,
I know, I know we got to let you go here, Kinger,
but looking looking forward to this one on Sunday, I
think it had listen some Every super Bowl is great
because it's the Super Bowl, like, it's going to be big,
it's going to be legendary, it's going to affect legacies.
(17:44):
But this one feels like it could really be remembered,
could really be talked about for a long time.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I'm expecting a great game.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I'm gonna go home and study on New Orleans super
Bowl history, but this this feels like it could be
another great chat.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
They're in New Orleans super Bowl history.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
To make.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Absolutely well, Kinger, it has been a pleasure as always
all season. Thank you so much for all that you've
done for our show. Of course, you know our time
also on game days. I know Wolf would echo the
same sentiments on air if you were here. Right now,
he's a little bit under the weather, but we truly
(18:27):
appreciate your man. Enjoy the downtime, enjoy the free time,
and of course can't wait to talk to you and
see you down, you know, in the next few months
or so, as we get to embark upon creating the
next twenty twenty five twenty twenty six Stealers team and
documenting their journey. Take care of my friend, Appreciate it
(18:51):
and we'll start us you.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh yeah, no, I just gonna say thank you and it.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
This will come as no surprise to anybody who listens
to this show, but you guys, you wolf absolute joy
to work with.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Thank you for everything all You're really appreciated.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
You the man King Heart.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah he hey, and the King of the Castle will
always be there. We'll have that sounder for you next
year as always. King all right, all right, that was
the great rob King voice of the Steelers. We'll be
back with Bore inside the locker room after these commercial breaks.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
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Speaker 8 (20:16):
Twenty two seconds and winding third quarter, first down, Parker
gets the call again. He's throw a hole.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Up the sider.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Turnyny, Honny pay.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Tom Parker just come run of forty one yards Willie
Parkner for the first time this year, goes over one
hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Now, Max, I gotta be honest, I totally just messed
that up.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, it's all good. You have the other one.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
You, You and I are You and I are both
still half asleep this morning. I uh yeah, I hit
the wrong I hit no.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
See this is the wrong one too. Where did it go?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
I was trying to play Willie Parker's super Bowl record
setting run in Super Bowl forty, which happened nineteen years
ago today, of course that Max was a part of.
But for some reason right now, the soundboard is not
giving me the rights on Jeez, Louise, Max, I ruined it.
I completely ruined the surprise for you. I'm sorry, but
happy nineteenth anniversary to your first super Bowl title.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
You know it. Thank you, Bud, thank you. I'm gonna
blow out the proverbial, Okay, I go, I go, Max.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
I got a surprise coming back for you here from
break and I play a run against New Orleans in
two thousand and six, Like what what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Good lord?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I mean technically I remember being down here and I
do remember that play, but uh, I always remember that
was like that was Halloween night and it and we
had there were some very rowdy Cajuns in the building
that night, and we could not overcome Drew Brees and company.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Uh that were down here for the Saints. So yes,
I did. And Marcus Colston who was Willie Colown's he
was the receiver for that team. Uh, I believe.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Trying to think who was the I think Duce McCallister
was still their running back as well. Okay, so yeah, yeah,
Leroy Glover was a was a d tackle for Yeah,
vaguely remember that, but thank you know.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Will Smith was the d N of Ohio State.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, not getting jiggy with it, Will Smith.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, not getting jiggy with it.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Bobby McCrae, one of my teammates, was also a defensive
end for the Saints.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So, I mean, still a good one. It's appro at
least you were city appropriate.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
I was city appropriate at least. But that's so funny.
I'm going through the system here and I cannot wait here.
We go better late than never.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Hines Ward settles, right, and they handed to Willie Parker
finds a laying he's on his way.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Look out quot Race forty five Quellie Parker forty thirty
twenty ten five Willy.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Touchdown, Willy Parker seventy.
Speaker 11 (23:03):
Five yards and this place there's a stealer maniacs paper.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Gott Max. How good is how good is Billy?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
My god.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Man?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's still that still is so exciting. And here here's
the thing.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Also, the record for the longest Super Bowl run or
touchdown rush from scrimmage is Willie Parker, and nineteen years later,
still the record. A little nervous about the record when
you got a guy like say Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
At point, I didn't think about that.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Could very easily see him busting like a seventy six
or a seventy seven yard or unfortunately, couldn't.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You hell, first play of the game he hit sixty wards.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Ain't nothing, you know, So you have to worry about
backed up football in the hand of the ball to
Saquon Max.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
We might need to wear out, we might need to
wear out that Willie Parker highlight this week.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Just just just in case, the record no longer stands Come.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Monday, exact.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Now, the good thing is kickoff now, you know, good point,
you know, put you puts you at the thirty you know,
just about you know, so technically he wouldn't have enough
yardage unless they took like some type of negative play and.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Because I mean, they'd have to be at the twenty
four yard line right.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Right, so they would i mean try to return it
and they get tackled at the twenty one or the
twenty two or something. But you're right, the majority of
the time now the offenses are starting with the football
and betterfield position.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, yeah, so so I mean they technically effectively cut
those distances out. Now it would take like you know,
a punt backed up situation, maybe a turnover red zone
from the other team.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Like it's less likely, but never say never when you
have you have Saquon.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, I'm a little worried about that now that you mentioned,
and I hadn't thought about that, but yeah, I mean
he is he's been the home run hitter of all
home run hitters, you know, like we haven't seen in
a long time at that position, old man.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, all right, come on, come on, Kansas City, at
least do us this favor.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Come on, yeah, exactly, keep the ball between the twenty fives.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Okay, wont we.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Gotta we gotta play this one more time. It was
too good to only hear once.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Yeah, heinz Ward settles right.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Man.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
They handed to Willie Parker, finds a laying, he's on
his way.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Look out quick right. Forty five Willie Perker forty thirty
twenty ten five. Willie touchdown Willy Parker seventy five yards.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
And there's place there's a steeler lady as paper.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I love the man.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
I love that, Like five six seconds into that when
Billy realizes what's about to happen, and just the jump
in at the very beginning again you can see it
when he sees it.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Man, they handed to Willie Parker, finds a laying, he's
on his way.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Look out foot race.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
Forty five Willy Parker forty thirty twenty ten five. Willie
touchdown Willie Parker seventy five yards and this place there's
a steeler ladyac's.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Paper, lookout foot race.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I mean he's yeah, what he says, foot rate, it
is it but but it was just but think about this,
how fast Willy was running that Billy could only mark
the ten yard increment. He couldn't even do how most
people would do it in five yard increment because he
is fast Willie Parker, Like you know you heard at
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forty thirty twenty in mine he got one and not down,
you know what I'm saying, Like, just think about how
fast you have to be running that the play by
play guy can't even give you five yard increments.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Like it's like listening to Usain Bolt run one hundred
meters dash my goodness.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
It's like, all right, and they're out the gates that
you say Bolts did the lead at it's over, He's
won gold medal.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, there goes a record.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, it's just waiting all day for this moment and
it lasted under ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Unbelievable, but worth it right and still gives you chills
and goosebumps every time. I Mean, those are like I'm i'm,
i am. I'm not even preaching to the choir here, Max,
I'm like preaching to the pope obviously as you were
on the field for that. Like, those are the moments
that you play the game for, that you watch the
games for that that we love these sports for for
(27:45):
moments like that.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yeah, I would say I'm more like a cardinal because
there's a lot of them. Uh, the Pope, Yeah, I
feel like he's like the head coach.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Did you did play for the Arizona Cardinals as well, too? Right,
so it works.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I did, I did? I did? You know?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
And definitely not not not the not the Italian not
the Italian Cardinals, you know, but that was I mean, you.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Know that that moment for you was probably what ten
twelve fifteen seconds something like that, But those ten twelve
fifteen seconds, I mean, they'll be burned into your memory forever.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Oh it well, And you know, I like to think
that once I fealed the block, like when he said
foot race, that was that was my block.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I believe that in my head foot right stark block,
you know what I'm saying. I think of it like that,
like like because he's because I mean, that was really
the last guy.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
I blocked, the last guy that was loafit totufu right,
because Michael bowl Wher had over compensated for Hines going
in motion and everything over rotated to the left side of.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
The of the offense and there was nobody.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
It was like it was like, man, okay, you know,
Allen's gonna come around and seal the place side backer.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He Heath has a man block on the end.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
You know, Kendall and I have have have a double
team down to the backside backer. But because they overshifted,
you know, Lofa was a little bit further back, so
I had more I had a little bit more time
to hang on the d tackle and make sure that
we make sure we got him on the ground. And
then boom. It was like scrape, scrape up to Lofa.
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Because Lofo was so inside, I was able to get
completely like side right now and and so boom and
after that there was nobody there. Nobody there, and Willie.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
You are basically like when Willy passes you, you are
basically turned around, fully engaged with Lofa to Tupou and
getting a piece of the of the defensive tackle as
well too.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
So I mean at that point he is gone, there's
he's only at his own thirty two thirty three yard line,
but he's gone, see you good luck?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah exactly. It was like it was like, sorry, nobody's
catching this guy.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Like if you're not in front of him, you are
you are watching the tailpipes, you know what I'm saying,
Like it's it was and it was fast too, and
my dumb behind I thought, man, I I can run
down there. I want to be the first one to
celebrate with him. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Get a little tired here. And also he can go
to the sideline after he celebrates. I gotta I gotta
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still block the it's still a block for the extra point.
So you see like speed up for like ten fifty
yards and throttle it down like now I need to say.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yeah, it is when they when they show like the
you know, like the end zone view on the replay,
it is funny because you can see you sprint for
about ten fifteen yards and then you're like, all, let's
it's only the it's only the second play of the
second half. Here, we got a lot of game left.
Let's let's down.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
I was.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I was like, wait a second, we don't have that
big of a lead.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Hold on, hold on, you know, I still got I
still got twenty left to play.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Exactly I want to play. I want to pull for
the oxygen just yet, but I might have to.
Speaker 9 (31:09):
But if I ran all the way down there, so
so yeah, but no that I mean, that.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Play is just yeah, it's it's etched into my into
my brain for all all eternity.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So that was a heck of a moment.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
That was that was a special moment, and I think
that was the moment when people were like, oh, yeah,
they're probably gonna win this. I mean, that's definitely you
know what what crossed my mind in that moment, like Wow,
to do that after you know, after slugging it out
in the first half, and to have that type of
success really that fast into the second half. I'm like, oh, man,
(31:45):
oh yeah, we're cooking. We're cooking with gasoline right now.
Not even Greece, we're cooking with gasoline.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
No, yeah, absolutely, And at that time too, Max, as
you know, this is I mean, this is right in
the era of you know, when I was old enough
to care and pay attention and start you know, living
and dying.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
With all these games as you know, like I'm in
my teenage years, and yeah, you're right.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
Like with that team you guys had, you go up
fourteen to three, it was like our defense has an
eleven point cushion.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Good luck.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
This game's over, you know what I mean, Like, they're
not gonna now to beat us, They're gonna have to
score more than fourteen points. They ain't scoring more than
fourteen points on this defense. Like you're right, there was
still twenty nine minutes, twenty eight minutes and change left
in the game. Twenty yeah, twenty nine minutes and change
left in the game. But I mean it it felt like,
all right, we just take care of business here and
(32:34):
this is done. Like we got an eleven point lead,
that is that is plenty. Our defense is gonna put
the put the lid on this thing, and we're gonna
get that one for the thumb.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
And also think about this, I mean that they have
Sean Alexander, who's the rushing camp that year, on the
other side.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
So it was it like, oh man, you know we.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Got the rushing advantage. We don't sure the rushing advantage
was on Seattle side. I mean, you know, And and
Matt Hasselbeck had been good that year, so I'm like,
and they're here.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
They were.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
They were more of a favorite than we were going
into the going into the season and the playoffs to
be a team to be reckon with.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
So we knew they were.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Capable across here, had a good offensive line as well.
Walter Jones was on that squad, you know, Hall of Famer,
and then Homegrom was the head coach, right, Mike Holmgrim was.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The head coach.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Yeah, super Bowl champion with the Green Bay Packers head coach.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
And then the guard that went in, he went in
the year before Allen and he switched over to the Vikings.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I can't remember his name right now. He was a guard,
but yeah, yeah, he was a guard.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
I can't think because he was the one that got
the transition tag and they put the poison pill in
the contract because it was a wording the Vikings used. Yeah,
why can't I think of his name? And it's it's
that kills me. It's like I have all these that
(34:07):
I forget, Steve. I think, there we go, Hutch. That's right, Hutch.
Hutch was what was was? It was, you know, the
the left guard over there. So to have a hall
two Hall of famers playing next to each other on
that on that line, you know, yeah, there there was
not warm and fuzzies after, you know, like, oh man,
we got this.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
But like you said, the way our defense have been
playing all year.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
You know, there was some huge, huge opportunities because they
knew that they were gonna have to press. They're gonna
have to now throw the football after that touchdown to
try and get back into this.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
So there's gonna be some vulnerabilities.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And of course it played out towards the end of
the game, but you know, yeah, there was a lot
of there was a lot of like.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Okay, yes, we got a cushion.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Gotta be able to stop them, got to be able
to figure out, you know, the answer for them, because
you have to remember later in that drive, Ben throws
throws the pick and he has returned but like almost
like seventy yards or so, m h I think, and
they score like three plays later.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
That's actually what I did take oxygen. As I was trying.
I was running, like.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Running, completely scared at that moment, you know, to try
and get the guy down. Twan comes across the field
and he makes the play in front of me, and
then I fly, I jump over him to avoid getting
clipped and ended up hitting the guys that were quote
unquote escorting him back down the field. And then then
(35:40):
I had to run across the width of the field,
which is over half a field's length in and of itself,
and I promptly set my button down and grabbed the
oxygen tank and dared somebody to say.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Something, just looking around like somebody say something.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Do it? Please do? Please do?
Speaker 8 (35:59):
I hope you.
Speaker 7 (36:01):
Don't think I'm you know, half sounded like Darth Vader.
Half sounded like an angry bear.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, exactly, I was. I was doubled over too.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
When I got to the side, I was like, man,
because you go on a long drive, and then the
pick was thrown and he's down my sideline.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
So now I'm trying to make it.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I've tried to bake up like like speed, and I'm
trying to run as fast as I can, and then
I don't make the plane. I go airborne, right, and
then I got to pick myself up off the turf
on the opposite sideline and then jug across the guitar
with the field, you know, because you definitely don't want
to get a twelve minute on the field penalty, and
especially since I don't play on the side of the ball,
(36:48):
that would have been embarrassing. So it was like the
pride got me across the field. Then reality immediately set
in as I got to the bench area.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
I feel like that is you know that probably part
of the blessing in the curse of being one of
the big hogs out there.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
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(37:35):
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Speaker 10 (37:53):
You know what the pen in Craig rod And it's
always a time when I playing this game to win
a championship. I'm a champion, and I think the bus
is the last time.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Is here Detrol, Oh my gosh, Man Wesley pulling out
all the chill moments.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You know, I'm trying to get you in your fields
on this on this Wednesday, Max, I mean you are.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
You're doing a great job there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Now, Jerome, you know, winning the ultimate prize at home
and then like you said that speech, that moment to
be able to deliver as a team for him, man
just just absolutely special. A phenomenal human being, a phenomenal
(38:52):
football player, a phenomenal personality. I mean, I can't tell
you how many different and things, but the humility, the toughness,
and the kindness as well. He was a fierce competitor man,
(39:12):
but he he was somebody on Sundays like, hey, you
know you getting the thick of it? Yeah, yeah, send
me three six, you know what I'm saying, Like, I'll
take that any day of the week. I like those odds,
and so, you know, for Jerome and what he meant
to us and that year, man, it just makes that
(39:35):
victory so much sweeter, just because you were able to
deliver for a teammate and give him his fairy his
fairy tale ending.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right. I mean every player dreams of that moment, like
when like like when.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
The ultimate game walk off the field, right, you know,
the deuce is signed in the air as they see
your BA.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Like that's what every player dreams and strives for.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Unfortunately, that doesn't happen that often, you know, less than
five percent of guys.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Oh yeah say that.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I mean, like, I know what happened. I know it
happened for Elway. I'm trying to think who else.
Speaker 7 (40:18):
I know There's been more, but off the top of
my head, like Elway is the only one other one
that I can think of.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah, no, I mean Elway probably because I mean because
even for Tom in Tampa Bay, like he was like that,
he came back again to try and make.
Speaker 9 (40:34):
It happen one more time. So you know that didn't happen.
It was you know at that point, you know what.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Was it San Francisco, I believe went the following year yep,
and then that's and then that's what he called it.
Speaker 7 (40:46):
Careering. Peyton Manning did it as well too, didn't he
with the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yeah, Peyton, you know Peyton did it? Yeah, super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Actually it must be it must be a Broncos quarterback sink.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
He's like, I'm sure always said, hey, Peyton, you might
want to do this now because we're bringing you. Exactly,
you have found the deepest end of the deep end
of this pool. And you jumped in this entire season
because remember it was looking bad. It was because it
was it was him and brock Osweiler going back and
(41:18):
forth like as a starter.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
It sure was.
Speaker 7 (41:20):
He he was not great that year, but you know what,
he made enough plays down the down the stretch for
them to get it done with that defense.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yep, yep he did.
Speaker 9 (41:30):
And of course you know the MVP went to Von
Miller of that Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
And because that defense was lights out. That was lights out.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
You know, Cam Newton didn't know which way was up sadly.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Oh, I got another one for you, Michael Strahan.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Oh, yes, straight did do that.
Speaker 7 (41:51):
Walked away after that, right, yeah, walked away after beating
the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
Okay, gee, guys, all right, one more, one more and
then I know we got a breaker. We're not gonna
like this one as much. But Ray Lewis did it
as well too. Speaking of that last New Orleans, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Was wondering and I didn't want to say it because
I'm like, I think he did, but I was like, I.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Don't want to. I don't want to bring it up.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
If it's true, we'll strike that from the record.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Never never happened, you know what.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
We're gonna strike this segment from the records right now,
from the from the records right now, because we're gonna
go to break. And on the other side, of course,
we have the great One back on his normal day
and time, the one, the only Jim Wex will wake
up back here inside the locker room, you're listening on
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